Gerrish Dredging Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.

The parties stipulated that the plaintiff performed the work, payment for which is sought, and the first question is, whether there is any evidence that it was done under a contract subsisting between the plaintiff and the defendant.

The jury would have been warranted in finding that the defendant had a general contract with the Boston Dredging Company to dredge basins for a dry dock and berthing space for vessels, including the turning basin and approach to it at Quincy in this Commonwealth, and to deposit the major part of the material on the land back of the bulkhead which the defendant had…