Commercial Cabinet Co. v. Mort Wallin of Lake Tahoe, Inc.

OPINION

Commercial Cabinet Co., Inc. (CC) constructed a number of men’s stores in various casinos in Reno and Las Vegas for Mort Wallin of Lake Tahoe, Inc. (MW). All of the stores were paneled with Philippine mahogany veneer. After the fire at the MGM hotel in Las Vegas, MW asked CC to rebuild the men’s store that had been destroyed in the fire, and also to build a western store in the hotel. CC began the reconstruction work in the spring of 1981. There was no written contract, and MW just told CC to rebuild the store as it had been before the fire, using the same type of materials.

The western…