States Improvement Co. v. State of Illinois

This action arises out of a contract entered into between claimant, States Improvement Company, Inc., an Illinois Corporation, and respondent, the State of Illinois, wherein claimant agreed to erect a certain steel I-beam bridge and approaches at a point approximately one quarter of a mile from the City of Decatur, County of Macon, State of Illinois.

Claimant contends that, due to the manner specified in said contract for the installation of piles, and the soil conditions existing at the time the contract was entered into, it was impossible to perform the contract, and that the State of…