Court Opinion

ID: 9828043
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:02:28.974946+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:42.171038
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellee insists, in his motion for rehearing, that the contract in this case, not being one for personal services, but one of a class “requiring by their terms the performance of some. specific act or service, which do not require all, or a great portion of plaintiff’s time, and do not preclude plaintiff from undertaking and being engaged in the performance contemporaneously of other contracts of specific acts or services,” was such that its breach by the contractor rendered the latter liable to the contractee for all losses sustained by him during the term of the contract; that upon the breach by the contractor the contractee was under no duty to minimize his damages, but could sit idly and securely by and watch his losses accumulate, when he could have easily avoided them.. We do not think this indemnity contract is within the class relied upon by ap-pellee to excuse him from the ordinary duty of minimizing his losses in event of breach of the contract. This'contract was to indemnify appellee against damages which othhrs might recover of him for injuries occurring to them. or their property by reason of appellee’s negligence, and none of 'the contingencies provided against occurred in this case.
It is contended by appellee only that under city ordinances he was prohibited from engaging in his trade as master electrician unless protected by indemnity bond such as that involved; that when appellant canceled said bond it left him without that protection, whereupon he voluntarily suspended his business, and made no effort to avert the ensuing losses, although he *507could have saved himself from any loss by the simple process of securing another bond, either from appellant, or any like insurer, with little effort and negligible expense. We adhere to the holding that he should have made some effort to that end, and then called upon appellant to make good his losses, if any.
Appellee’s motion for rehearing is overruled.