St. Paul Dredging Co. v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding in accordance with federal cases that absent an exculpatory clause in the subcontract a contractor can recover for losses sustained by its subcontractor
• failure to procure the necessary cooperation of a third party to fulfill the state’s obligation to remove telephone poles did not excuse the state from performance, absent a specific contractual provision of excuse for that contingency
• “It is well settled that a promise which cannot be performed without the consent or cooperation of a third party is not excused because of the promisor’s inability to obtain such cooperation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).