United States of America, for the Use of Coastal Steel Erectors, Inc. v. Algernon Blair, Incorporated, and United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company

How courts have described this case

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• “The impact of quantum meruit is to allow a contractor to recover the value of services rendered irrespective of whether he would have lost money on the contract and been unable to recover in a suit on the contract.”
• “[T]hat the complaint is not clear in regard to the theory of a plaintiff’s recovery does not preclude recovery under quantum meruit . . . . A plaintiff may join a claim for quantum meruit with a claim for damages from breach of contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).