Hovas Construction, Inc. v. Board of Trustees

RUSSELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Hovas Construction Inc. (Hovas) appeals the judgment of the Washington County Circuit Court awarding $19,500 in liquidated damages to the Board of Trustees of Western Line Consolidated School District (School District) due to Hovas’s failure to complete a construction project by the agreed-upon deadline. Hovas argues that the circuit court erred by: (1) finding the liquidated-damages provision of the contract enforceable when it was an unreasonable pre-estimation of damages, was generally unreasonable, and thus constituted a penalty; (2) holding that the *665School…