Court Opinion

ID: 7808730
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-07 17:09:50.131453+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:30:24.336106
License: Public Domain

Smith, J., on rehearing. Appellee calls attention to the fact, in his motion for a rehearing, that he prevailed in the trial of this cause in the court below, and that he tried his case upon the theory that there could be no recovery by appellant, unless he had substantially complied with his entire contract, which required him not only to furnish a well answering the contract specifications, but a pump also. He insists now that, in view of ¡our decision that the appellant should be allowed to recover the contract price for the completed contract, less the sum expended by appellee in completing the contract, he should be permitted to develop more fully his defenses to the suit, when tried upon that theory. He says, in this connection, that the pump installed by him was hot of equal value to the one to which he was entitled under the contract, and that he incurred expenses in the installation of the new pump for which we have not given him credit, and which were occasioned by the failure of appellant to install the kind of pump to which appellee was entitled under his contract. Inasmuch as appellee recovered judgment below upon an erroneous theory, we will grant the rehearing to the end that he may develop his case in accordance with the law as announced in the original opinion. And as the cause is to be remanded for a new trial, we take occasion to say that the court properly refused to allow appellee to prove damages alleged to have been sustained to his rice crop as being indirect, and not within the contemplation of the parties under the terms of the contract.