Metropolitan Sanitary District v. Anthony Pontarelli & Sons, Inc.

Plaintiff, in this appeal from an order granting defendants 1 summary judgment, contends that the motion was erroneously granted.

All counts of the amended complaint related to a contract between plaintiff and Anthony Pontarelli and Sons, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Pontarelli) for the construction of a sewer. The substance of those counts is as follows: Count I aHeged that PontareHi and Burton Scheidt, plaintiff’s Chief Engineer, through fraud and deceit, induced plaintiff to pay PontareHi $2,965,042.89 to which PontareHi was not entitled; Count II aHeged that when PontareHi entered into…