Sorrentino v. State

The State appeals from a judgment of the Court of Claims for the balance found due under a contract for the removal and reinterment of human remains from a cemetery within the right of way of a projected highway.

The basic issue is whether the contract requires the payment of a unit price of $44.98 for the “ complete transfer of each body”, regardless of number, in accordance with claimant’s proposal-—-on which basis the trial court found the amount earned under the contract to be $125,198; or whether claimant is entitled to no more than the gross sum of $6,000 provided by the contract proper.…