Cases - Bryant v Flight

Record details

Name

Bryant v Flight

Date

(1839)

Citation

5 M & W 114

Keywords

Contract administration

Summary

In the absence of an express agreement, a contract administrator will be entitled to be paid a reasonable sum for the work he carries out.

The plaintiff had agreed to provide managerial services to the defendant on terms that the amount of payment he was to receive was left entirely to the defendant to determine. A majority of the Court of Exchequer of Pleas held that, the services having been proved to have been performed and to have been of value to the defendant, the plaintiff was entitled to recover reasonable compensation for them. The plaintiff had not said that he would leave it to the defendant to say whether he was to be paid anything or nothing; it was clear from the terms of the letter that he agreed to perform the services in the expectation that he would receive some remuneration and the only thing left open was the amount.