Gary Excavating Co. v. Town of North Haven

The plaintiff contracted with the defendant town and its sewer commission, hereinafter referred to as the defendants, for the construction of sanitary sewer laterals. The contract contained a provision for the arbitration of any disputed claims which should arise in the course of the performance of the work. A controversy arose from a claim by the plaintiff that it was compelled to incur unanticipated, additional expense in performing the work due to subsoil conditions which, the plaintiff claimed, differed from those contained in the information submitted to it for the purpose of preparing…