Court Opinion

ID: 7353456
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-26 03:13:01.10566+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:20:28.138457
License: Public Domain

SEABURY, J.
The plaintiffs sued to recover damages for a breach of contract, which breach consisted in the failure of defendants to deliver to plaintiffs a car of 600 boxes of apples. The only proof of damage which the plaintiffs offered was to the effect that they had purchased the apples from the defendants for $1 per box, “and had resold the apples” to other persons for $1.25 a box. This was not the correct rule of damage. It is elementary that the rule of damages, where a vendor refuses to deliver an article of merchandise which he has agreed to sell, is the difference between the contract price and the market value of the article at the time and place where it should have been delivered.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to appellants to abide the event. All concur.