Building Chemicals Corp. v. State

Claimant contracted with the State to furnish all materials, labor, transportation and appliances required for waterproofing twenty buildings at Pilgrim State Hospital in accordance with certain specifications and drawings. The work was entered upon by claimant, completed and accepted and claimant has been paid its contract price.

In this suit claimant seeks to recover from the State what it says was the increased cost to it of paying waterproofers employed on the job a wage of one dollar and twenty-eight and one-eighth cents per hour instead of rates which it contemplated. The rate paid was…