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- Title: Maryland Casualty Co. v. City of Seattle
- Author : Supreme Court of Wisconsin
- Release Date : January 06, 1941
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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DRIVER, J. -- Felix Arcorace and Joe Coluccio, contractors, completed some sewer construction work for the city of Seattle, and the surety on their bond brought this action to obtain an adjudication of the claims against the retained percentage of their pay. The contractors and their assignee, The National Bank of Commerce of Seattle, cross-complained against the city for additional compensation. The city, by its answer, denied further liability and asserted a counterclaim against the contractors for water, electric power, inspection, and other charges. By stipulation of the parties, the controversy between them on the issues thus framed was separated, for the purpose of trial, from other claims and controversies in the case. After a trial to the court, the contractors were awarded recovery on four of the eight items of the cross-complaint, the city was granted a partial offset on its counterclaim, and findings and judgment were entered accordingly. The contractors and the bank appealed because of the rejection of their principal claim, based upon the added cost of the construction of a portion of the tunnel section of the project by the use of compressed air. The city cross-appealed as to three of the four