154 So. 3d 477 - Paramo v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 432 So. 2d 660 - Bowman v. Kingsland Development, Inc. · 893 So. 2d 708 - Szucs v. QUALICO DEVELOPMENT, INC. · US FIRE INS. v. C & C Beauty Sales, Inc. · 847 So. 2d 594 - Medcom USA, Inc. v. RYDER HOMES AND GROVES CO. · Holiday Gulf Builders, Inc. v. Tahitian Gardens Condominium, Inc.
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“Damages are liquidated when the proper amount to be awarded can be determined with exactness from the cause of action as pleaded, i.e., from a pleaded agreement between the parties, by an arithmetical calculation or by application of definite rules of law. Since every negotiable instrument must be “an unconditional promise or order to pay a sum certain in money,” actions for the sums directly due on negotiable instruments are, by definition, actions for liquidated damages. However, damages are not liquidated if the ascertainment of their exact sum requires the taking of testimony to ascertain facts upon which to base a value judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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