In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Q: two propositions, and the verdict does not specify upon which the jury acted, there can be no certainty that they found upon one rather than the other" and preclusion is inappropriate. 158 U.S. 216, 222, 15 S.Ct. 816, 818, 39 L.Ed. 956 (1895); see also Fayerweather, 195 U.S. at 302, 25 S.Ct. at 65 (When the basis upon which a judgment is rendered is unclear, it is "tantamount to a finding in favor of the successful party of all facts necessary to sustain the judgment." (emphasis added)). In Brown II, we observed that Florida courts uphold this common-law protection: [Pjreclusive effect is not given to issues which could have, but may not have, been decided in an earlier lawsuit between the parties. See, e.g., Acadia Parsers, L.P. v. Tompkins, 673 So.2d 487, 488-89 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996) (<HOLDING>); Allstate Ins. Co. v. A.D.H., Inc., 397 So.2d
Holding statements: (A) holding that a cause of action for breach of contract accrues at the time of the breach (B) recognizing that the elements of a claim for breach of contract are 1 existence of a valid contract and 2 breach of the terms of that contract (C) holding party in breach could not maintain suit for breach of contract (D) holding that jurys verdict for the defendant in a breach of contract action did not establish the absence of breach because the jury was instructed that it could find for the defendant if it concluded that the defendant had not breached the contract or if the defendant proved an affirmative defense (E) holding that a breach of contract claim against one defendant related back to interference with contract claim against that defendant and breach of contract claim against second defendant because it was based on same set of operative facts
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(D)