K. Miller Construction Co. v. McGinnis
JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion. The plaintiff in this Cook County litigation is a sole proprietor who renovated a Chicago building for the defendant and his wife on the basis of an oral agreement. (They had been friends.) The total estimated price of the project was $500,000, but, when the work was completed in 2006, the defendant owed over $300,000 and refused to pay.