Section 12 Unjust Enrichment/Quantum Meruit

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Generally an employer’s request for additional services does not justify the inference of an offer to pay additional compensation. In Roebuck v. Valentine-Radford, Inc., 956 S.W.2d 329, 332 (Mo. App. W.D. 1997), the court held:

In a quantum meruit claim for services performed by an employee, the employee must show that: at the special insistence and request of the employer, the employee performed work in excess of his ordinary and required duties for the benefit of the employer; that the employer accepted...