Key legal question
Whether the plaintiffs' damage claim was correctly interpreted as limited to costs for 7,000 m2 of buildable area.
Extracted holding
The commercial court did not misinterpret the claim; the plaintiffs' pleadings were understood as seeking only the costs linked to anticipated excavation during an assumed development of the site.
Extracted reasoning
The complaint and supporting submissions indicated that only excavation material requiring special treatment upon future construction was treated as damage. The trust-based interpretation of the claim request was therefore not arbitrary.