“[T]he contract . . . was illegal and void because of [the contractors’] failure to comply with the licensing requirements.”
How later courts described this case
- “[T]he contract . . . was illegal and void because of [the contractors’] failure to comply with the licensing requirements.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
Distinguished
Distinguished by Jones v. Humanscale Corp., 29 Cal. Rptr. 3d 881 (2005)
Loving & Evans v. Blick, supra, 33 Cal.2d 603, is inapposite because it involved an arbitration agreement contained in an illegal construction contract executed by an unlicensed contractor.
The opinion
EDMONDS, J.
I concur in the judgment but do not join in that portion of the majority opinion which approves and reaffirms the decision in Gatti v. Highland Park Builders, Inc., 27 Cal.2d 687 [ 166 P.2d 265 ],