Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 28 · Decided 21 January 1971
Puran Lal Sah v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 28 · [1971] 3 S.C.R. 469
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1687/1966
- Decided
- 21 January 1971
- Bench
- P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY, I.D. DUA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 80; Constitution Article 133(1)(a)
Headnote
Contract-Claim on basis of quantum meruit-When sustainable. The Public Works Department of the respondent.State had issued a tender notice for the construction of a road. The appellant mspected the site, went to the place where stone for the construction was said to ~ available, and after It was accepted and a contract was signed. The estimates in the tender notice were prepared by the P.W.D. on the basis that stone was available at a distance of 26 chains from the work spot. In fact, stone was available at that distance in the C~tonment area but for its removal permission of the
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