White Oak Corporation v. State

The plaintiff, a highway construction contractor, has appealed from a judgment rendered in favor of the defendant state of Connecticut in an action brought pursuant to the provisions of § 4-61 of the General Statutes 1 for damages arising out of a contract for the construction of a state highway. The facts as set forth in the finding are undisputed. The plaintiff bid upon and was awarded by the state a contract in excess of six million dollars for the construction and relocation of a highway known as route 8. The contract, in general, called for building bridges, blasting, relocating…