
    (No. 5612
    Max Gerber, Inc., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.
    
      Opinion filed April 17, 1969.
    
    Max Gerber, Inc., Claimant, pro se.
    William J. Scott, Attorney General; Saul R. Wexler, Assistant Attorney Central, for Respondent.
   Dove, J.

Claimant, Max Gerber, Inc., filed its complaint against respondent for the sum of $657.75 for materials furnished the Department of Mental Health, Peoria State Hospital, Peoria, Illinois.

Thereafter a stipulation was entered into by claimant and respondent, as follows:

“That claimant, Max Gerber, Inc., had furnished materials as alleged in claimant’s statement of claim.
“That there is lawfully due the claimant the sum of Six Hundred Fifty Seven Dollars and Seventy Five Cents ($657.75).
“That, as a result of delay in billing by claimant herein, payment was not made prior to the closing of the biennial appropriation.
“That claimant continues to be the sole person interested in this claim, and that no assignment thereof has occurred.
“That, upon the foregoing agreed case filed herein, the Court shall decide thereon, and render judgment herein according to the rights of the parties in the same manner as if the facts aforesaid were proved upon the trial of said issue.”

This is a matter of a lapsed appropriation, and this Court has repeatedly held that, where a contract has been (1) properly entered into; (2) service is satisfactorily performed, and materials furnished in accordance with such contract; (3) proper charges made therefor; (4) adequate funds were available at the time the contracts were entered into; and (5) the appropriation for the biennium from which such claim could have been paid had lapsed, it would enter an award for the amount due.

Claimant, Max Gerber, Inc., is, therefore, awarded the sum of $657.75.  