Tower Contracting Company v. Flores

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• except in cases where specific performance is proper, non-repudiating party “cannot afterwards go on, and thereby increase the damages, and then recover such damages from the other party”
• “the proper measure of damages, where the contractor sues on the contract, is … the contract value of the work actually done plus any profit the contractor would have made had he been permitted to complete the performance of his contract”
• contractual meaning not derived from piecemeal portions of contract
• contractual meaning not derived from piecemeal portions of contract
• contractual meaning not derived from piecemeal portions of contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).