Hopper v. Colonial Motel Properties, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, in addition to proving existence of a contract, breach, and damages, a plaintiff must show that “the defendant’s breach was a substantial factor contributing to the damages” and that damages were foreseeable “at the time of entering into the contract”
• noting that, in addition to proving existence of a contract, breach, and damages, a plaintiff must show that “the defendant’s breach was a substantial factor contributing to the damages” and that damages were foreseeable “at the time of entering into the contract”
• damages for personal injury caused to motel patron when the person in the room above accidentally discharged a gun into her room were no.t reasonably foreseeable at the time the injured party and the motel entered into a contract for rental of the room

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).