Tyger Construction Co. v. Commonwealth

Opinion

BENTON, J.

Tyger Construction Company, Incorporated, and Pensacola Construction Company, joint venturers doing business as Tyger-Pensacola (Tyger), appeal from the circuit judge’s grant of partial summary judgment in favor of the Department of Highways and Transportation (VDOT). The circuit judge ruled that Tyger, a general contractor, who entered into a contract in 1985 with VDOT to construct portions of an interstate highway, could not assert a claim that its subcontractor incurred additional work not anticipated by Tyger in its contract with VDOT. Tyger contends that the circuit…