National Steel Car Corp. v. Schwager & Nettleton, Inc.

Citations

• 124 Wash. 557
• 214 P. 1049
• 1923 Wash. LEXIS 924

Syllabus

<p>Sales (78, 155) — Performance of Contract-tTime — Extension— Damages — Purchase of Goods Elsewhere. Where the buyer of' lumber extended the time for the delivery to a certain date, and the seller already in default made no reply thereto and failed to deliver the lumber, the breach of the contract occurred on that day; so that the measure of damages would be governed by the market price at that time, and not at an earlier date when the buyer had purchased lumber in anticipation of the seller’s continued failúré to perforin the contract. . ' .</p>