XEROX CORPORA ~ OClaimant, N, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS,Re- spondent.
Case summary
Claimant sought $700.00 for materials and services provided to the Department of Mental Health. The court awarded the amount due because the contract was properly entered, services performed, funds available, and the appropriation had lapsed.
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Headnotes
- CONTRACTS-lapsed appropriation. Where contract has been properly entered into, all provisions thereof satisfactorily performed, proper charges made therefor, adequate funds were available at the time said contract was executed, and the appropriation from which such claim could and would have been paid had lapsed, an award will be made.
Claimant, Xerox Corporation, filed its complaint against respondent for the sum of $700.00 for materials and services rendered the Department of Mental Health, State of Illinois.
A stipulation was entered into by claimant and respondent as follows :
“That claimant, Xerox Corporation, had completed the work as alleged in claimant’s statement of claim.
[*281] “That there is lawfully due claimant the sum of $700.00.
“That, as a result of delay in billing by 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 had 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, Xerox Corporation, is hereby awarded the sum of $700.00.