Blue Stone Land Co., Inc. v. Neff

How courts have described this case

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• holding that costs incurred by developer to extend road to purchaser’s land were natural consequence of defendant’s breach of contract to build road, and thus direct damages
• holding error in excluding evidence of damages was not harmless because it might have produced a different result on both the litigant’s defenses and counterclaim
• in the context of damages, direct means flowing naturally or ordinarily from conduct or is a result that can be expected in the ordinary course of human experience
• in the context of damages, direct means flowing naturally or ordinarily from conduct or is a result that can be expected in the ordinary course of human experience
• “The [harmless error] doctrine is never applied, however, when it appears that the jury has been misinstructed and, had it been properly instructed, that it might have returned a different verdict.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).