4542. Contractors Damages for Abandoned Construction Contract-- Quantum Meruit Recovery Instruction No 1 Request by Plaintiff Given as Proposed Refused Withdrawn Request by Defendant Given as Modified Requested by Given on Court's Motion Judge Instruction No 1 [Name of plaintiff] claims that the parties constistently disregarded the contract's change-order process and that the final project was significantly different from the original project. If you find that the parties abandoned the contract, [name of plaintiff] is entitled to recover the reasonable value of all of [his/her/its] work on the project rather than the contract price. ________________________________________________________________________________ New December 2010