Opinion ID: 726057
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: $12,000 Additional Surveying Costs

Text: 73 The jury awarded EPC $12,000 in damages for extra survey work which it completed. We agree with the district court that the written notice provision was waived. In addition, there was enough probative evidence for the jury to conclude that surveying was MMCC's responsibility but that EPC covered the costs; thus, we cannot conclude that its verdict was sheer surmise and conjecture. LeBlanc-Sternberg, 67 F.3d at 429. 74 Merritt's project manager, Don Scaglione, testified that surveying was not EPC's responsibility. DeLello testified that he put the surveyors on his payroll: 75 The agreement was that Dennis Capolino said to me [Jack DeLello] how are we going to get this [surveying] done? And I said the surveyors are four months late. Now, we have to have them here immediately. He said he didn't want to hire surveyors, because if he hires surveyors, it would be out of the union hall, and the union hall would thereafter on all his jobs try to enforce surveyors for all his projects. It would have been a precedent. 76 Jack, he [Capolino] says, you are not going to be in this area. You are doing this one job, then you go back to Colorado. He said put it on your payroll, then I don't have the burden of precedent, and I don't have the burden of operators. I said Dennis, I will do that as convenience so he can avoid operator's union having a claim for precedent. 77 [Q] Did you do that? 78 [A] Yes, I did [d]o that. I called him the next day. 79 Finally, even though the surveying payroll documents may not have been in evidence, the documents upon which Alverson based his $12,000 damage calculation were available, had been provided to MMCC, and were admissible. Thus there was probative evidence for EPC to carry its burden of persuasion on the survey issue, and since MMCC failed to point to any inconsistent testimony (and thereby to decrease the probative value of EPC's testimony), we cannot say that the jury's verdict was sheer surmise and conjecture. LeBlanc-Sternberg, 67 F.3d at 429. 80