Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, Inc. v. Massachusetts Port Authority

Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) entered into a written contract engaging the engineering services of Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, Inc. (FST), to design improvements for a runway at Logan Airport. After FST completed the design work and, indeed, after bids had been received from contractors, Massport reduced the scope of the work substantially. The parties ask us to resolve the manner in which Massport should compensate FST for designing that portion of the work which Massport decided not to build.

Procedurally, the case comes to us on Massport’s appeal from the entry of a judgment based…