Dickey v. Alaska Pacific Fisheries

Citations

• 107 Wash. 633
• 182 P. 595
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 795

Syllabus

<p>Sales (154)—Damages (70)—-Delay. Damages for delay in performing a contract to deliver piles at a certain time, time being of tbe essence of the contract, do not include, as within the reasonable and natural consequence of the delay, damages from conditions in Alaska not called to plaintiff’s attention, but will be confined to demurrage paid the railway company on waiting cars and to the damages caused by the detention of defendant’s scow at the loading point for lack of piles to load; there being no information to plaintiff that any further loss would be caused by the delay.</p>