State Line Contractors, Inc. v. Commonwealth

By this amended petition under G. L. c. 258 State Line Contractors, Inc. (State Line), sought damages for the alleged breach of a contract to construct a section of Interstate Route 495. The petition as amended stated eleven claims, ten of which were based on accounts annexed. The case was referred to an auditor (findings of fact not final) and, after recommittal for further findings, was tried before a judge sitting without jury. G. L. c. 258, § 2. The judge heard the case on the auditor’s reports and the testimony of three engineers (called by the Commonwealth) in the Commonwealth’s…