U.S. FOR USE OF PALMER CONST. v. CAL STATE ELEC.

No. 90-55575.

940 F.2d 1260 (1991)

UNITED STATES for the Use of PALMER CONSTRUCTION, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CAL STATE ELECTRIC, INC.; United Pacific Reliance Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 31, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard A. Allen, Evelyn R. Wiggins, Deb C. Pedersdotter, Hillyer & Irwin, San Diego, Cal., for defendants-appellants.

Irwin E. Sandler, Sandler & Breier, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before REINHARDT and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges, and CROCKER, District Judge.


FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge:

This case presents a clash of principles at the interface between the law of expressed contracts and the law of quasi contracts. Here, Cal State Electric, Inc. (CSE) entered into a contract with Palmer Construction, Inc. (Palmer). Palmer breached its contract, and after a trial the district court found that CSE should pay damages and attorneys fees to Palmer. CSE appealed1

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