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The Florists^ Review 



March 25, 1020 



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 are both valuable, though further data 

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BREACH or CONTRACT. 



In Sale of Beans. 



It has been said by some judge that 

 "the law will not permit juries to guess 

 money from one man's pocket into an- 

 other's." In other words, where suit 

 is brought to recover damages for 

 breach of a commercial contract, the 

 plaintiff must prove a basis upon which 

 his damages may be assessed with rea- 

 sonable certainty. It is not sufficient 

 for him to rest on his oars when he 

 shows that the defendant has broken 

 his contract. 



The point is illustrated by a decision 

 handed down recently by the New Mex- 

 ico Supreme court in the case of R. W. 

 Rounsavall & Co. vs. H. Herstein Seed 

 Co.. 186 Pacific Reporter, 1078. 



The plaintiff sued the defendant for 

 $1,670 as damages for lost profits on a 

 carload of pinto beans contracted to be 

 sold to the defendant. The contract 

 was made through a telegram from the 

 plaintiff to the defendant, offering to 

 sell "at 15 cents f. o. b. Trinidad, 

 Colo.," and the defendant's acceptance, 

 "at 15 cents Trinidad." The plaintiff's 

 place of business was at Lexington, Ky., 

 and the defendant's at Clayton, N. M. 



It does not appear to have been dis- 

 puted at the trial that the defendant 

 refused to accept delivery and that the 

 plaintiff sold the beans to dealers in 

 Kentucky. 



Nominal Damages. 



At the trial the plaintiff offered no 

 evidence as to the market value of the 

 pinto beans at Trinidad at the date of 

 the breach of the contract, nor as to his 

 inability to sell them there. The trial 

 court awarded nominal damages only, 

 because of this failure of proof, and 

 the plaintiff appealed to the Supreme 

 court, which affirmed the action of the 

 lower court, saying: 



"Plaintiff contends, as we under- 

 stand counsel, that Trinidad, Colo., was 

 not the place of delivery, but simply a 

 point in transit. We agree with the 

 trial court, however, that under the 



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