Busch & Latta Painting Corp. v. State Highway Commission

DIXON, Presiding Judge.

This appeal has its genesis in a contract action brought by plaintiff, Busch & Latta Painting Corporation, a painting contractor, against the Highway Commission. The contract involved was for the painting of the Hannibal Bridge crossing the Mississippi River. Busch & Latta’s theory of recovery was that the specifications for surface preparation were ambiguous and that the Commission’s inspectors required an excessive amount of sandblasting, prior to the paint application, by reason of the ambiguity, which in turn caused damage by requiring expenditures not contemplated…