Portland Electric & Plumbing Co. v. City of Vancouver

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• prohibiting assignment when contract stipulated that “[t]he [contractor shall not assign this contract or any part thereof . . . without the written prior approval of the [o]wner”
• up-holding a non-assignment clause which provided that the “the Contractor shall not assign this contract or any part thereof, or any moneys due or to become due thereunder, without the written prior approval of the Owner”
• “[w]hen a contract prohibits assignment in ‘very specific’ and ‘unmistakable terms’ the assignment will be void against the obligor”
• ‘When a contract prohibits assignment in ‘very specific’ and ‘unmistakable terms’ the assignment will be void against the obli-gor.”
• \The primary purpose of clauses prohibiting the assignment of contract rights without a contracting party's permission is to protect him in selecting the persons with whom he deals\
• “The primary purpose of clauses prohibiting the assignment of contract rights without a contracting party’s permission is to protect him in selecting the persons with whom he deals.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).