City of Dardenne Prairie v. Adams Concrete & Masonry, LLC

Introduction

The City of Dardenne Prairie (“City”) appeals from the trial court’s grant of judgment on the pleadings, which rejected the City’s breach-of-contract claim against Adams Concrete and Masonry (“Adams-*15Concrete”) and also dismissed Adams Concrete’s breach-of-contract counterclaim against the City. Both the claim and counterclaim were premised upon the writing attached to the City’s petition as Exhibit 1. Because the City was bound by its assertion, in its own pleadings, that the terms of Exhibit 1 were never approved by the City’s Board of Aldermen (“Board”), the purported contract…