Legal Opinion
Leo Spear Construction Company, Inc. v. The Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York and Brookfield-Baylor, a Joint Venture
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 1, 1971No. 35696_1PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiff damages under a quantum meruit theory of recovery in the amount of $90,845 plus interest of $5,910.99 and in addition $50,000 damages under a theory involving tortious interference with business relations.
On June 20, 1967, Leo Spear Construction Company (Spear), plaintiff herein, entered into a contract with F. H. Mc-Graw and Company, Inc. (McGraw), the prime contractor in the construction of new student housing at the University of Vermont at Montpelier (the University), wherein Spear as a subcontractor agreed to…
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- Webster Eisenlohr, Inc. v. KalodnerCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1944
- Pierce Ford Sales, Inc., and Elmer W. Bemis, Trustee in Bankruptcy v. Ford Motor CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1962
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