Trigg v. Clay

Citations

• 88 Va. 330
• 13 S.E. 434
• 1891 Va. LEXIS 37

Syllabus

<p>1. Contract to Sell Goods—Breach—Damages.—The general rule is that all damages resulting necessarily and immediately and directly from the breach of the contract to furnish goods are recoverable, and not those that are contingent and uncertain.</p> <p>2. Idem—Market—No market—Measure, of damages.—Where seller contracts to furnish goods at a place where there is a market wherein buyer can buy similar goods, the measure of damages is the difference between the price at which they were to be furnished him, and the price at which he can buy similar goods there; but where seller contracts to furnish goods at aplace where there is no market wherein buyer can buy similar goods, and buyer has re-sold the goods that were to be furnished him there, the measure of damages is the net difference between the price at which they were to be furnished him there and the price at which he has re-sold them.</p>