Board of Education v. Beka Industries, Inc.

This case arises from a dispute relating to the construction of Ocean City Elementary School (“OCES”), located in Worcester County, Maryland. Appellant, the Board of Education of Worcester County (the “Board”), and appellee, BEKA Industries, Inc. (“BEKA”), entered into a written contract for BEKA. to perform the sitework portion of the construction. Disputes arose regarding payment pursuant to the original contract and for additional work that BEKA performed. Folio-wing a four-day bench trial in the Circuit Court for Worcester County, the court ruled in favor of BEKA, entering a “compromise”…