Bethel v. Butler Drilling Co.

How courts have described this case

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• upholding trial court’s determination that liquidated damages clause was penalty against breaching party, and limiting plaintiffs recovery to actual damages
• upholding trial court’s determination that liquidated damages clause was penalty against breaching party, and limiting plaintiff’s recovery to actual damages
• upholding trial court's determination that liquidated damages clause was penalty against breaching party, and limiting plaintiff's recovery to actual damages
• courts may not “pick and choose which breaches are enforceable by liquidated damages” when provision is applicable to breaches of varying materiality

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).