Dynagraphics, Inc. v. United States National Bank

How courts have described this case

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• where the jury returns special interrogatories in a plaintiffs favor on two claims with identical or overlapping damages, “[a] proper verdict on either claim would independently support the judgment”
• where identical and overlapping damages are awarded on alternate theories of liability, the verdict on either claim is independently adequate to support the judgment
• damages must be caused in fact by breach and must be foreseeable, that is, either arise naturally from the breach or have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time they made the contract
• where plaintiff received “identical and overlapping damages” on both a negligence and a contract claim, it was only necessary to address one of those claims because “[a] proper verdict on either claim would independently support the judgment”
• damages must be caused in fact by breach and must be foreseeable, that is, either arise naturally from the breach or have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time they made the contract

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