Langlois v. Town of Proctor

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, in a negligence case where the plaintiff introduced evidence of restoration costs and the defendant offered no evidence of damages, the plaintiff satisfied her prima facie case and the burden of producing additional evidence was on the defendant
• plaintiff obliged to “identify conduct separate from that which breached the underlying contract to form the basis for the breach of the implied contract”
• “In essence, plaintiff has argued that the conduct that breached the covenant was the Town’s refusal to admit its liability for plaintiff's damages’’
• “[O]nce plaintiff made a prima facie case, the burden of production was then on the [defendant] to present evidence that cost-of-repair damages in this case were unreasonable, for instance . . . in comparison with the diminution in value of the building before and after the damage occurred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).