Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 6/25/1986

J. A. Sullivan Corp. v. Commonwealth

Citations

494 N.E.2d 374
397 Mass. 789
1986 Mass. LEXIS 1674

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recognizing that “[a] contract is to be construed to give reasonable effect to each of its provisions”
recognizing that \[a] contract is to be construed to give reasonable effect to each of its provisions\
holding that “[e]very phrase and clause must be presumed to have been designedly employed, and must be given meaning and effect, whenever practicable, when construed with all the other phraseology contained in the instrument”
noting that courts are to adopt contractual readings that effect “a workable and harmonious means for carrying out and effectuating the intent of the parties.”
explaining that “[qjuantum meruit is a theory of recovery, not a cause of action. It is a claim independent of an assertion for damages under the contract, although both claims have as a common basis the contract itself’
affirming trial judge’s computation of quantum meruit recovery where judge looked in part to provisions of underlying contract

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Judges: Hennessey, Wilkins, Nolan, Lynch, O'Connor

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