Opinion ID: 1911047
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Retrieving the Truck

Text: Of the $13,572.71 awarded for impoundment, retrieval, and storage expenses, Decker does not dispute that $4,810.10 of this amount relates to expenses incurred in connection with the seizure of the truck by Wyoming authorities. [4] Decker argues the remaining expenses cannot be upheld as incidental damages pursuant to SDCL 57A-2-715(1): Incidental damages resulting from the seller's breach include expenses reasonably incurred in inspection, receipt, transportation and care and custody of goods rightfully rejected, any commercially reasonable charges, expenses or commissions in connection with effecting cover and any other reasonable expense incident to the delay or other breach. Towing back to Sioux Falls was properly allowed as a reasonably foreseeable expense, not only because the truck was inoperable, but also because driving the still defectively-titled vehicle imposed the risk of another seizure along the route home. White & Summers at § 10-4; Gerwin v. Southeastern Cal. Ass'n of Seventh Day Adventists, 14 Cal.App.3d 209, 92 Cal.Rptr. 111 (1971). An award based upon a bona fide effort to compensate for consequences of defects that establish a breach of warranty is a remedy the UCC seeks to provide. McGrady v. Chrysler Motors Corp., 46 Ill.App.3d 136, 4 Ill.Dec. 705, 360 N.E.2d 818 (1977). Expenses incurred retrieving the truck from Wyoming were reasonable expenses incident to the breach.