Carver-Shadbolt Co. v. Klein

Citations

• 69 Wash. 586
• 125 P. 944
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 958

Syllabus

<p>Sales—Beeach by Vendee—Measure op Damages. Where, upon a breach by the buyer of a contract to purchase hogs, the market price went down, and the seller used due diligence and made as advantageous sales of the remainder as the circumstances would permit, both as to the time and the price obtained, the measure of damages is sufficiently fixed by the difference between the contract price and the price obtained, plus his expense in feeding the hogs beyond the time he had agreed to do so; as it is a fair conclusion from his diligence that his loss was no greater than if he had sold at the market price on the day of the breach.</p>