Case ID: ill-ct-cl_26/html/0455-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Dove, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(No. 5614
    
      Callaghan and Company, An Illinois Corporation, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.
    
      Opinion filed April 17, 1969.
    
    Riordan, Malone and Schlax, Attorneys for Claimant.
    William J. Scott, Attorney General; Saul R. Wexler, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent.
   Dove, J.

Claimant, Callaghan and Company, an Illinois Corporation, filed its complaint against respondent for the sum of $14,365.00 for legal publications and books furnished the Secretary of State, Springfield, Illinois.

Thereafter a stipulation was entered into by claimant and respondent, as follows:

“That claimant, Callaghan and Company, an Illinois Corporation, had furnished materials as alleged in claimant’s statement of claim.
“That there is lawfully due claimant the sum of Fourteen Thousand Three Hundred Sixty Five Dollars and No Cents ($14,365.00).
“That, as a result of delay in billing by the claimant herein, payment was not made prior to the closing of the biennial appropriation.
“That claimant continues to be the sole person interested in this claim, and that no assignment thereof has occurred.
“That, upon the foregoing agreed case filed herein, the Court shall decide thereon, and render judgment herein according to the rights of the parties in the same manner as if the facts aforesaid were proved upon the trial of said issue.”

This is a matter of a lapsed appropriation, and this Court has repeatedly held that, where a contract has been (1) properly entered into; (2) service is satisfactorily performed, and materials furnished in accordance with such contract; (3) proper charges made therefor; (4) adequate funds were available at the time the contracts were entered into; and, (5) the appropriation for the biennium from which such claim could have been paid had lapsed, it would enter an award for the amount due.

Claimant, Callaghan and Company, an Illinois Corporation, is, therefore, awarded the sum of $14,365.00.