Loving & Evans v. Blick

I dissent. The problem here presented for consideration is whether a recovery should be allowed when a contract was entered into by a duly licensed contractor who subsequently found it necessary to enter into a partnership for financial reasons, the partnership, through no fault of its own, being unable to procure a partnership contractor's license until the completion of the work.

This case presents extenuating circumstances similar to those which prevailed in the cases of Gatti v. Highland Park Builders, Inc., 27 Cal.2d 687 [166 P.2d 265] and Citizens State Bank *618v. Gentry, 20 Cal.App.2d 415…