Eastland v. Gregory

How courts have described this case

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• actual damages awarded to seller where seller elected to sue for actual damages instead of accepting earnest money as liquidated damages, and advanced proof seller suffered $12,500 in actual damages and attorney's fees
• a party who breaches a contract is only liable for the damages caused by the breach, and the non-defaulting party is only entitled to be put in the same position he would have been had there been no breach

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Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Strickland v. Rossini
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-11-13· cited 83×
• Purina Mills, Inc. v. Moak
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 37×
• Rogers v. Rogers
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-26· cited 30×
• A & F PROPERTIES, LLC v. Lake Caroline, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-10-24· cited 28×
• Puckett MacHinery Co. v. Edwards
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-07-21· cited 24×
• PARKER TRACTOR & IMPLEMENT COMPANY, INC. v. Johnson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-01-10· cited 20×
• Industrial Contractors v. Tim Mote Plumbing
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-01-23· cited 13×
• Jackson HMA, LLC v. Morales
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-11-21· cited 11×
• McDonald v. Lemon-Mohler Insurance Agency, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2015-12-15· cited 7×
• Montgomery v. Stribling
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2012-10-02· cited 5×
• Culbreath Revocable Trust v. Sanders
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-09-04· cited 4×
• Evans v. Clemons
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-09-09· cited 3×
• Hancock Bank v. Travis
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-06-26· cited 3×
• J & B Entertainment v. City of Jackson, Miss.
  S.D. Mississippi· 2010-03-31· cited 2×
• Emergency Medicine Associates of Jackson, PLLC v. Glover Ex Rel. Glover
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-04-26· cited 2×
• Worldcom, Inc. v. Automated Communications, Inc.
  S.D. Mississippi· 1999-01-26· cited 1×
• Trapani v. Treutel
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2012-04-24· cited 1×
• Caver v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-06-04· cited 1×
• Haden v. Krupp Asset Management Corp.
  S.D. Mississippi· 1990-10-24· cited 1×
• Parker Tractor & Implement Company, Inc. v. Edward Johnson, Jr.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-02-13

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gilmore v. Cohen
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1963-10-30· cited 68×
• Thomas v. Global Boat Builders & Repairmen
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-01-08· cited 52×
• Copiah Dairies, Inc. v. Addkison
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1963-05-20· cited 32×
• Mississippi Power Co. v. Harrison
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1963-05-06· cited 30×
• Leard v. Breland
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-10-28· cited 29×
• McDANIEL BROS. CONSTRUCTION COMPANY v. Jordy
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1967-03-20· cited 26×
• Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Consumers' Ice & Power Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1915-03-15· cited 22×
• Conrad v. Dorweiler
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1971-09-09· cited 21×