Berman v. Herrick

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit, based solely upon the-quasi-contractual theory of unjust enrichment, by several contractors and materialmen against the general partners of a limited partnership, which owned a large Philadelphia office building. Plaintiffs seek to recover the value of alleged improvements to the building made by them pursuant to their contracts with the defendants’ lessee, a corporation which was then in possession of the building with an option to purchase it.

There was evidence that the lessee had contracted to pay the plaintiffs sums aggregating approximately $240,000…