Ramsey v. Tully’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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1. ““It is quite unnecessary to multiply the citation of cases. The principle which underlies them all is that where one of two' contracting parties, not being himself in default, suffers a lass by the wrongful default of the other, he ought to receive full and just compensation therefor. His recovery, however. is to ho limited to snch damages, in the language of Baron Alderson in Hadley v. Baxendale, ‘as may fairly and reasonably bo considered either «.rising naturally, i. e., according to the usual course of things, from the contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as a probable result of the broach of it’ This definition excludes all such damages as are remote or merely speculative.’’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vilter Mfg. Co. v. Abeel