Case ID: ill-ct-cl_26/html/0440-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Perlin, C.J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(No. 5461
    Skelly Oil Company d/b/a Aurora Skelgas Service, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.
    
      Opinion filed April 17, 1969.
    
    Skelly Oil Company, Claimant, pro se.
    William G. Clark, Attorney General; Etta J. Cole, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent.
   Perlin, C.J.

Claimant seeks from respondent payment of the sum of $162.54 for materials provided the Division of Highways of the State of Illinois. The demand for the payment was refused on the grounds that funds appropriated for such payments had lapsed.

A stipulation submitted by the parties agree that the materials were furnished, and that there is lawfully due the amount requested by claimant.

Where a contract with the State has been (1) properly entered into; (2) services satisfactorily performed, and materials furnished in accordance with such contract; (3) proper charges made therefor; and, (4) adequate funds were available at the time the contract was entered into, this Court will enter an award for the amount due. Gilbert-Hodgman, Inc., A Corporation, vs. State of Illinois, 24 C.C.R. 509. It appears that all the requirements have been met in the instant case.

Claimant is hereby awarded the sum of $162.54.