Comfort Homes, Inc. v. Peterson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a construction contract that specified payment as a percentage of estimated costs allowed for simple computation of the amounts owed
• defendant had burden of proof to show that plaintiff could not have made profits on subsequent contract but for defendant’s breach
• the burden is on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff failed to mitigate damages
• A contract called for payment of a specific percentage of the estimat ed cost of the construction of a structure. Although the parties di sagreed as to the amount of the relevant estimated cost, the claim was held to be one for a “liquidated determinable amount of money due.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).