Wall v. Pate

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• suggesting that the conditions required for an award of special damages must include a “tacit agreement” (citing Globe Ref. Co. v. Landa Cotton Oil Co., 190 U.S. 540, 543-44 (1903))
• special damages may be awarded if the loss was foreseeable by breaching party at time of contracting
• in the event of a breach of a land sale contract, sellers are restricted to general damages computed under the loss of the bargain rule, unless the sellers prove that they have incurred special damages
• special damage arising from breach of contract must be expenses which are not expected to occur regularly to other plaintiffs and which are shown to have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time of the formation of the contract

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