Powell's General Contracting Co. v. Marshfield Housing Authority

This is an appeal from the judgment based on a master’s report awarding damages of $194,533 to the plaintiff contractor in a dispute arising out of the construction of a housing project for the Marshfield Housing Authority (Marshfield). The three main issues raised by Marshfield in its appeal are whether the judge erred: (1) in failing to rule that the parties were bound by a decision of the Department of Community Affairs to which the dispute had been referred; (2) in failing to rule that most of the work performed by the contractor and.found by the master to have been occasioned by changed…