Southern Cal. Acoustics Co. v. C. V. Holder, Inc

In Southern Cal. Acoustics Co. v. C. V. Holder, Inc. (1969) 71 Cal.2d 719, the prime contractor had, with the consent of the public agency therein involved, substituted a different subcontractor on the ground that it had made a clerical error in listing the then plaintiff instead of the subcontractor it intended to list. The holding, based on the statutes, then in force, did not set forth such ground as a permissible basis for substitution. Holding that the then plaintiff had justifiably relied on the original listing, the Supreme Court held that the contractor and the agency had acted without statutory authority and that the original subcontractor could recover its damages.