BOSTON v. NEW ENGLAND SALES & MANUFACTURING CORP.


386 Mass. 820 (1982)

438 N.E.2d 68

CITY OF BOSTON vs. NEW ENGLAND SALES & MANUFACTURING CORPORATION & another (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund C. Grant, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the city of Boston, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, LIACOS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

In this appeal by the city of Boston, involving a single issue, we must determine whether the city is entitled to contractual liquidated damages for delay after the abandonment of a construction contract by the principal defendant. The city obtained an award of liquidated damages for the period between the agreed date of completion of the work and the later date on which the contractor abandoned the work. The...

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