Vaccaro Construction Co., Inc. v. Louis L. Schafer and C. Marie Schafer

This is a construction case. The defendant homeowners had an oral contract with the plaintiff contractor to perform renovations on their home. After problems with the renovations arose, including flooding of the home after a rainstorm, the homeowners terminated the contractor. The contractor filed a claim seeking enforcement of a lien on the improved property or payment for the work done on theories of breach of contract, quantum meruit, and unjust enrichment. The homeowners counter-claimed that the contractor owed them for the cost of repairing the contractor’s defective work. After a bench trial, the trial court found that the contractor’s work fell well below the applicable standard and awarded the homeowners damages for the repair of the contractor’s defective work. We affirm.