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Gregory, a comedy writer, entered into a contract with Wessel, a comedian. The contract provided that Gregory would provide Wessel with a 15 minute monologue for his upcoming appearance on the comedy Hour and that Wessel would pay Gregory $250. All Performers on the comedy Hour make $500 per appearance. As Gregory knows, the last time Wessel appeared on the Comedy Hour he was asked to make special guest appearances at three local comedy clubs using the same monologue. Wessel earned a total of $750 for the three performances. Shortly before Wessel was scheduled to appear on the comedy Hour, Gregory informed Wessel that he was unable to provide the monologue. As a result, Wessel was forced to cancel his appearance. Wessel sued for breach of contract and requested damages of $1,250. What will result? Issue, -

Have you ever been done wrong? Have you ever been done wrong under a contract and faced sufficient damages causing a loss? Chapter 18 focuses on contract remedies, and how damages to a party are compensated. When a party breaches a contract, under the law the court can give the injured party an equivalent of what the promised performance would have rewarded. The two cases I chose to discuss are the Arrowhead School District No. 75, Park County, Montana v. James A. Klyap, Jr. case and the Parker v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. case. Both of these cases provide us with a very good explanation of different types of damages, and how the court came to a conclusion based off of the different scenarios. Throughout the remainder of this article, it will briefly discuss the details of each case, the similarities and differences among them, and how your business clients can use these cases to strategically prevent future legal issues of similar nature.

Real Property Robert Briggs and his wife purchased a home located at 167 Lower Orchard Drive, Levittown, Pennsylvania. They made a down payment and borrowed the balance on a 30-year mortgage. Six years later, when Mr. and Mrs. Briggs were behind on their mortgage payments, they entered into an oral contract to sell the house to Winfield and Emma Sackett if the Sacketts would pay the three months’ arrearages on the loan and agree to make the future payments on the mortgage. Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Sackett were sisters. The Sacketts paid the arrearages, moved into the house, and continued to live there. Fifteen years later, Robert Briggs filed an action to void the oral contract as in violation of the Statute of

Richard commenced action against his father and step mother, alleging fraud and misrepresentation in connection with the settlement monies plaintiff entrusted to his father. This action was brought after it was discovered that the remaining balance in the account was only $45,000.00 and his father quit his job as a cable television technician and made plans to move back to is home country of Belize to begin a cable television company. This was further supported when it was found that the step mother sold her beauty salon in the Bronx and shipped all of the remaining items to Belize. Thus, Richard Arzu seeks compensatory damages and related relief.

Vivian sues for her $1,000 deposit back, claiming that there was no mutuality of consideration for the agreement and that the contract

FACTS: Theadores W. Ross conveyed her home to Peter R. Cournoyer via a quitclaim deed. In addition to the standard statement consideration, i.e., “consideration of $10.00 and other valuable consideration,” the deed also stated, “This quitclaim deed is being given with the consideration being love and affection.” After the deed was recorded, Cournoyer sold the property to Luis and Gladys Perez for $50,000.00. The purchase money came from mortgage that the Perezs gave to Chase Federal Savings and Loan Association (plaintiff). Thereafter, Mrs. Ross brought suit to rescind and cancel her deed to Cournoyer citing the absence of valuable consideration.

For the reasons set forth below, I submit that we could plausibly argue that a condition precedent to Proterra’s duty to pay has not been satisfied, the interest provision of the contract is an improper liquidated damages clause, and the interest provision of the contract is unconscionable.

Under the policy, Plaintiff could either recover the full cost of repairing the damage if repairs were actually made, or recover the depreciated value of the property. As of trial, Plaintiff had not actually repaired the property. Nonetheless, it was awarded the full cost of repairs by the jury. The jury further awarded lost business income, which was not within the terms of the policy, but declined lost rent, which was within

Robert made a contract with Midcity Painters to paint his house. The when the painters arrived to paint Robert’s house they mistakenly painted his neighbor Louise’s house. Louise was home when the painters worked on her house all day, and she made no comment to Midcity while they worked. Louise had knowledge of Midcity painting her house and she neglected to tell the painters any information in the situation. In the event that she neglected telling the painters she is liable to pay the bill she received. Louise thought she would get away without paying for the brand new paint job on her house. If Louise was not home when they were priming and painting her home she would have gotten away without having to pay. Louise’s failure to act on her

The plaintiff must prove they suffered loss which was caused by defendant’s negligence. Jane and Tom suffered an economic loss of $10,000 and $2,500 respectively. Damages occurred when both the parties invested in recommendations made by the defendant. Damages from Grampian shares wouldn’t have incurred had Phillip kept himself well-informed of the financial fluctuations of the previous month. However, Phillip couldn’t have foreseen the weather changes that deteriorated the price of Olivia Ltd.’s shares.

Section 75 esteems a liquidated damages clause provision to be punitive and therefore invalid (with the exception of as a ceiling for recuperation). Likewise, any sum expressed as liquidated damages unable to be naturally recouped by the damaged party. Regardless of the possibility that an agreement contained an liquidated damages provision, a damaged party should always at present demonstrate his real loss. On the off chance that inferable from 'a lack of an established measure of damages', a harmed party thought that it was hard to demonstrate his genuine misfortune, his claim would not come up short. Rather, Section 75 would allow him to recoup 'reasonable compensation' (ie, a total which is 'sensible and reasonable as per the court's great

The court acknowledges the Potters lawsuit for restitution of sums paid on the property and it was not for expectancy damages. Clearly, the court stated, “By selecting the remedy of rescission and restitution, rather than expectation, or reliance damages, Potters chose what is usually the smallest awardable recovery.”(case, pg.4) Therefore, the court claims the remedy for this lawsuit was a fair decision. Since the market value of the property decreases their total recovery and the court felt it was an appropriate decision to deduct $10,800 from the awarding amount. The court rejects Oster statement that the amount should have been base on the market value when the contract was breached instead of when the performance occurs.

Smooth did not ask Jeff how old he was; the salesman assumed he had reached the age of majority. Jeff paid the down payment and signed the contract stating that he would make payments of $200 each month. Six months later Jeff lost his job and could no longer make the payments. Jeff took the car back to Smooth and said he wanted to cancel the contract and that he wanted his money back. What are the possible outcomes? Explain your answers.

The determination isn’t whether Forrest Gump breached his contract by failing to meet his promise but the decision on the validity of the liquidated damage clause. The Alabama Sports Marketing company believes that if the offeree, Forrest Gump, breaches his contract he is responsible for paying the company $2 million.

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