Flora v. Hoeft’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““It is elementary that the damages recoverable are those which result directly and proximately from the deceit complained of. 12 R.C.L. 451, 452. The instruction complained of permitted the jury to include in plaintiff’s damages the value of the contract as it would have been had it been carried out, that is, if the owners had conveyed the land to plaintiff. In other words, plaintiff was allowed to recover such sum as would have represented the profits he would have derived from the contract if the owners of the land had adopted it and fulfilled it. This instruction clearly violated the rule above stated, and was erroneous. * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Doenges-Long Motors, Inc. v. Gillen