Legal Opinion
S.A. Healy Company v. Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 23, 1995No. 94-3038PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Milwaukee’s sewage authority made a contract with the Healy company for the construction of a vertical shaft 300 feet deep and 13 feet in diameter to carry liquid wastes to storage and treatment facilities. The contract price was in excess of $8.8 million. The contract itself is 2,306 pages long—which demonstrates that detail alone cannot be counted on to prevent disputes. Healy encountered unexpected difficulties in the construction of the dropshaft as a result of a heavy flow of groundwater into the underground work site. These difficulties increased the cost of…
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