Clear Lake City Water Authority v. Friendswood Development Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “a party who prevents or makes impossible the occurrence of a condition precedent upon which its liability under a contract depends cannot rely on the nonoccurrence to escape liability” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• recognizing that “a party who prevents or makes impossible the occurrence of a condition precedent upon which its liability under a contract depends cannot rely on the nonoccurrence to escape liability” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted
• stating that purpose of benefit-of-the-bargain damages is to “restore the injured party to the economic position it would have been in had the contract been fully performed”
• holding defendant “cannot rely on a projected failure of voter approval, which it prevented or made impossible…to escape its liability”
• stating that -purpose.of benefit-of-the-bargain ■ damages is to “restore the injured party, to the economic position it would have been in had the contract been fully performed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).