Rothrock v. Hunter

Citations

• 66 Wash. 543
• 119 P. 1114
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 802

Syllabus

<p>Sales — Contracts—Construction. A contract to purchase certain sheep unconditionally, and also to purchase three thousand lambs, with a ten-day option to the vendor to sell the lambs to other persons, after which time the lambs could not be sold to any other person, is a binding contract to sell the lambs to the purchasers, subject only to the ten-days’ option to sell to other persons.</p> <p>Damages — Measure—Breach of Contract. Upon breach of a contract to sell certain lambs, the measure of damages is the difference between the contract price and the value at the time of the agreed delivery.</p> <p>Sales — Breach of Contract — Damages — Evidence of Market Value. Upon breach- of a contract to sell lambs to be delivered at a certain place, at which there was no market value for them, other evidence of their value is competent, and experienced sheep men may testify as to their value without testifying in detail to their market value at other places, or the cost of transportation.</p>