Rich, Lang & Coté, Inc. v. Town of Warren

A judge of the Superior Court vacated an arbitral award in favor of a firm of architects which had been engaged by the town’s school building committee because he concluded that payment of the award ($30,000) would result in the town’s violating the first sentence of G. L. c. 44, § 31, as appearing in St. 1955, c. 259. See Arthur R. Murphy, A.I.A., & Associates v. Brockton, 364 Mass. 377, 380-381 (1973); Marlborough v. Cybulski, Ohnemus & Associates, 370 Mass. 157, 159-161 (1976). The particular reasons for that conclusion need not be recited; it will suffice for present purposes to note that…