Case ID: ill-ct-cl_27/html/0139-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Berlin, C.J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(No. 5206
    John C. Tully Company, A Corporation and Michael Pontarelli, Inc., A Corporation, Claimants, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.
    
      Opinion filed April 27, 1971.
    
    Harry M. Brostoff and Donald J. O’Brien, Jr., Attorneys for Claimants.
    William J. Scott, Attorney General; Saul R. Wexler, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent.
   Berlin, C.J.

The instant cause was filed in December of 1964 as a result of a dispute over a construction contract under which the claimants were joint venturers. The parties have entered a stipulation in which they agreed that the respondent was liable for damages as to certain counts in the complaint. The respondent acknowledged its liability therein to the extent of $271,192.00 in return for which the claimants agreed to waive, release and relinquish any and all claims presented under this cause;

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the sum of $271,192.00 be awarded to claimants in full satisfaction of any and all claims presented to the State under case No. 5206.