Legal Opinion
Corinno Civetta Construction Corp. v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 6, 1986PublishedCited by 152 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Simons, J.
In Kalisch-Jarcho, Inc. v City of New York (58 NY2d 377), we reaffirmed the rule that contract clauses barring a contractor from recovering damages for delay in the performance of a contract are valid, that they will prevent recovery of damages resulting from a broad range of reasonable and unreasonable conduct by the contractee if the conduct was contemplated by the parties when they entered into the agreement, but that they will not excuse or prevent the recovery of damages resulting from the contractee’s grossly negligent or willful conduct, i.e., conduct…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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