Grossman Holdings Ltd. v. Hourihan

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• holding that “the reasonable cost of construction and completion in accordance with the contract” is available only if it “is possible and does not involve unreasonable economic waste”
• adopting section 346(1)(a) of the Restatement (First) of Contracts (Am. Law Inst. 1932), to cases involving breach of a construction contract
• adopting section 346(1)(a) of the Restatement (First) of Contracts (Am. Law Inst. 1932), to cases involving breach of a construction contract
• for breach of contract to construct a specified product, the injured party can get compensatory damages for all unavoidable harm that builder had reason to foresee when contract was made, less unpaid contract price
• “Fluctuations in value after the breach do not affect the nonbreaching party’s recovery.”
• first citing Nat’l Commc’ns Indus., Inc. v. Tarlini, 367 So. 2d 670 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979); and then citing Lake Region Paradise Island, Inc. v. Graviss, 335 So. 2d 341 (Fla. 2d DCA 1976)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).