DeLeuw, Cather & Co. v. City of Joliet

Appellant sued appellee in the circuit court of Will county, to recover on a quantum meruit for engineering services rendered in connection with a proposed new municipal waterworks system, to be financed by a Federal P. W. A. loan and grant of $1,790,000 alleging the value of the services rendered to be $46,350. The city did not accept the allotment and abandoned the project. The trial was by a jury, and at the close of all the evidence the court reserved its ruling on the city’s motion for a directed verdict, and the case went to the jury, which returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff…