Mass Construction Co. v. State

Claimant, a Delaware Corporation, seeks to recover the sum of $69,454.00 alleged to be due and unpaid under a contract for the erection of two parallel seven-span bridges on Interstate Route No. 57 over the Little Wabash River in Effingham County, Illinois. The amount requested is for the construction of eight cofferdams (watertight enclosures from which water is pumped to expose the bottom of a river, and permit work to be done there) at the contract unit price of $8,000.00 each, and for 1,732 cubic yards of cofferdam excavation at the contract unit price of $7.00 per cubic yard.

The project…