When Jane comes home from work one evening, she sees a painting crew begin to paint her garage. She had not spoken with anyone about painting her garage, but remembers that her next-door neighbors had recently contracted to have their garage painted. She assumes the paint crew must be mistaken. Without saying anything, Jane goes inside and allows the paint crew to keep working. When they finish, they request payment. Jane refuses to pay for the work because she did not ask anyone to paint her garage. Which of the following answer choices is most accurate?
There is no contract, so the painters are not entitled to any payment.
This is a unilateral contract and Jane must pay the price requested by the painters.
There is no contract, but the painters will likely be awarded a sum of money if they sue alleging quasi-contract.
This is a bilateral contract and Jane must pay the price requested by the painters.
Answer : 3rd option
There is no contract but painters will likely be awarded a sum of money if they she alleging quasi-contract.
Quasi-Contract comes into the play when no prior agreements are made but goods or services are delivered. Quasi-contract aims to prevent one party from benefitting at another party's expense when no prior contracts were agreed. This is imposed when goods or services are accepted though not requested by the party, but this acceptance creates an expectation of payment.
Here, Jane had seen painters painting her garage. This means she knows that her garage is being painted without any request from her. So she knows what happened there. This shows the acceptance from Jane.
So she will need to compensate the painters if they lodge a complaint against her.
If she didn't really need her garage painted, she should have gone to the painters the moment she saw them and she should've stopped them. But she didn't do that. So she accepts the services and now she refuses to pay for it.
So if painters have the information that Jane had seen them painting her garage before, they'll definitely lodge a complaint and jane will be likely to compensate the painters for it.
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