Opinion ID: 1243946
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Heading Rank: 10

Heading: value of postcontract crop yields

Text: In the sixth assignment of error, the producers complain of the district court's findings that (a) the corn yield was such that Jandebeur suffered a $25,496.10 loss, (b) Jandebeur owed nothing for the sunflowers the producers planted, and (c) Jandebeur owed nothing for the acres he set aside. We begin this aspect of our analysis by recalling that one injured by a breach of contract is entitled to recover all one's damages, including the gains prevented as well as the losses sustained, provided the damages are reasonably certain and such as might naturally be expected to follow the breach. Katskee v. Nevada Bob's Golf of Neb., 238 Neb. 654, 472 N.W.2d 372 (1991); Buell, Winter, Mousel & Assoc. v. Olmsted & Perry, 227 Neb. 770, 420 N.W.2d 280 (1988). While it is true that such damages need not be proved with mathematical certainty, neither can they be established by evidence which is speculative and conjectural. Katskee, supra ; Buell, Winter, Mousel & Assoc., supra . Loss of prospective profits may be recovered if the evidence shows with reasonable certainty both its occurrence and the extent thereof. Uncertainty as to the fact of whether damages were sustained at all is fatal to recovery, but uncertainty as to amount is not if the evidence furnishes a reasonably certain factual basis for computation of the probable loss. Id.