 The rule of the common law is, that where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation, with respect to damages, as if the contract had been performed.  Mississippi Reports ... Being Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court ... - Page 436by Mississippi. Supreme Court, Thomas Alexander Marshall, William C. Smedes, Volney Erskine Howard, Robert John Walker, John Franklin Cushman, James Zachariah George - 1913Full view - About this book
 | 1866 - 932 pages
...v. Harman (3), that where a contract is broken the injured person is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages as if the contract i had been performed. This is the amount of damages where the contract would give the actual enjoyment... | |
 | 1869 - 1032 pages
...to adopt the rule laid down by Parke, B., in Robinsons. Harman (11): "The rule of the common law is, that where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages... | |
 | 1870 - 542 pages
...law is that where a party sustains a loss by breach nf contract he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages as if the contract had been performed." It is important to consider in estimating damages arising from breach of contract how far the contemplation... | |
 | Solomon Atkinson - 1853 - 562 pages
...where a party sustatns a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, as far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages as if the contract had been performed. The case ofFlureau v. Thornhill (x) qualified that rule as to contracts for the sale of land, it being... | |
 | 1855 - 414 pages
...general. Thus, " where a person makes a contract and breaks it, he must pay the whole damage sustained." " Where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation, with respect to damages,... | |
 | 1855 - 804 pages
...Thus, " where a person makes a contract and breaks it, he must pay the whole damage sustained." '' Where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation, with respect to damages,... | |
 | Ontario. Court of Common Pleas - 1856 - 594 pages
...is, " that where a party sustains a loss by breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages as if the contract had been performed." The case of Waters v. Towers (8 Ex. 401) is strongly in the plaintiff's favor. The facts are briefly... | |
 | Edmund Powell - 1856 - 456 pages
...terms of the . contract. Where they are unliquidated, the rule of the common law is, that — LIV. Where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages... | |
 | John Scott, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1858 - 568 pages
..."(a) In Robinson v. Harman, 1 Exch. 850, 855, f Parke, B., says, — " The rule of the common law is, that, where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages... | |
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