Remediation Services, Inc. v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the defendant had the right to void the contract based on the undisclosed agency “regardless of whether the principal suffered an actual injury[]”
• the “reasonable value” which plaintiff may recover in quantum meruit is not the value of labor but the value of the benefit resulting therefrom
• “‘one is estopped to recover on quantum meruit where there exists an express agreement’ ”
• contract for dredging services was not inherently illegal where contract was merely voidable at the election of the defend- ant because of an undisclosed dual agency by one of the parties
• “No tender is required where the party seeking to rescind has received nothing of value, or where any amount received under the contract may be less than the amount due to the party seeking to rescind”
• contractor whose officer was a dual agent of both that contractor and the party hiring the contractor could pursue a quantum meruit claim against the hiring party when the contract was not void but “voidable only at the election of the defrauded [hiring party]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).