Case ID: ill-app_211/html/0556-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Stresenreuter Brothers, Appellee, v. Henry A. Knott, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 23,590.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    1. Building and construction contracts, § 103
      
      - — when evidence supports verdict on note given in payment for work. In an action to recover on a promissory note given in payment for work performed under a building contract, evidence examined and held sufficient to support a judgment for plaintiff.
    2. Building and construction contracts, § 97* — when evidence is admissible to show that departure from terms was sanctioned. Where, by their conduct, the parties to a building contract waive a provision therein that authority to depart from its terms shall be in writing, in an action to recover on a note given in payment for work done under the contract, evidence offered by plaintiff to show that the departure from the terms was with the sanction of defendant’s proper representative is admissible.
    3. Building and construction contracts, § 83* — what is not condition precedent to suit by contractor on note. Where a promissory note is given in payment of work done under a building contract, it is not necessary that the question of the damages, which the maker of the note claims to have suffered by reason of a deviation from the plans, be referred to the architect for determination before the contractor can bring suit on the note.
    
      Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Joseph S. LaBuy, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1917.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed July 10, 1918.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Stresenreuter Brothers, a corporation, plaintiff, against Henry A. Knott, defendant, to recover on a promissory note. From a judgment for plaintiff for $1,996.91, defendant appeals.
    A. M. Cross, for appellant.
    C. W. Greenfield, for appellee.
    
      
      See Hllnois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Taylor

delivered the opinion of the court.