Legal Opinion

Boston v. NEW ENGLAND SALES & MANUFACTURING CORP.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided July 21, 1982Published

1Opinion of the Court

386 Mass. 820 (1982)

438 N.E.2d 68

CITY OF BOSTON

vs.

NEW ENGLAND SALES & MANUFACTURING CORPORATION & another[1] (and a companion case[2]).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 9, 1982.

July 21, 1982.

Present: WILKINS, LIACOS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

Edmund C. Grant, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the city of Boston, submitted a brief.

WILKINS, J.

In this appeal by the city of Boston, involving a single issue, we must determine whether the city is entitled to contractual liquidated damages for delay after the abandonment of a construction contract by the principal defendant. The city…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Phaneuf v. CoreyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
  2. Oregon, State Highway Com'n v. DeLong Corp.Court of Appeals of Oregon · 1972
  3. Morrison v. RichardsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
  4. Vaught Construction Corp. v. Bertonazzi Buick Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
  5. Six Companies of California v. Joint Highway Dist. No. 13Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1940

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