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Jennings v. McCormick

Citations

  • 25 Wash. 427
  • 65 P. 764
  • 1901 Wash. LEXIS 410

Syllabus

<p>BREACH OF CONTRACT- — -LIQUIDATED DAMAGES.</p> <p>Where the owners of adjoining lands, which are protected against overflow from high tides hy means of dikes and dams, enter into an agreement whereby one of the owners contributes a sum of money toward the construction of a dam on the condition that certain dikes owned by the others are not to he cut, leveled, or damaged in any way, and in case they should be-such sum was to he refunded to him, such sum must he regarded as a stipulation for liquidated damages to which he would he entitled on the breach of the contract.</p>

Judges: Fullerton

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