THOMAS BROTHERS CORP. v. COMMONWEALTH


345 Mass. 384 (1963)

187 N.E.2d 666

THOMAS BROTHERS CORPORATION vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 4, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Henry Stern for the petitioner.

Edward J. McCormack, Jr., Attorney General, & William D. Quigley, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, SPIEGEL, & REARDON, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

This is a petition under G.L.c. 258 to recover $30,266.70, as a balance due for 201,778 cubic yards of gravel backfill furnished under a contract for highway construction. The judge in the Superior Court found for the respondent and denied a request to rule that such a finding was not warranted. The petitioner duly excepted. There was no error.

The Commonwealth has paid for the gravel as "ordinary borrow" at the unit price of fifty cents a cubic...

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