Gruschus v. CR Davis Contracting Company

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the trial court should have enforced a liquidated damages provision where there was no evidence that the liquidated damages was an unreasonable estimate of the damages at the time of the contract
• explaining that a liquidated damages clause fixes recovery for damages and will be unenforceable “when the stipulated amount is so extravagant or disproportionate as to show fraud, mistake or oppression”
• New Mexico recognizes quantum meruit recovery for extra work
• New Mexico recognizes quantum meruit recovery for extra work

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).