 It is the well-settled general rule of damages for any breach of contract that the damages that can be recovered for a breach are only such as may reasonably be supposed to have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time of the making of...  American Law Reports Annotated - Page 401927Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 884 pages
...is only liable for such damages as naturally flow from the breach of contract, or such as may fairly be supposed to have been within the contemplation of the parties, at the time the contract wa.i made. First National Bank v. Telegraph Co. (Ohio), 485. 3. Intervening cause.]... | |
 | Law - 1911 - 410 pages
...his destination because of his wife's illness does not make his delay involuntary; much less can it be supposed to have been within the contemplation of the parties at the outset. So, both upon principle and authority it must be said that at the time of the loss here... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 922 pages
...are, it seems to us, in view of the known facts surrounding the execution of the contract, such as may reasonably be supposed to have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time Hie contract was executed, as the proximate, and natural consequences of a breach by defendants... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Damages - 1893 - 1132 pages
...ought reasonably to have been contemplated to ensue, or in case of contract whether they ma}- fairly be supposed to have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time of contracting. This is well illustrated by an English case. The defendant contracted to deliver... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 694 pages
...it seems to us, in. view of the known facts surrounding the execution of the contract, such as may reasonably be supposed to have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time the contract was executed, as the proximate and natural consequences of a breach by defendants,... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1894 - 764 pages
...are, it seems to us, in view of the known facts surrounding the execution of the contract, such as may reasonably be supposed to have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time the contract was executed, as the proximate and natural consequences of a breach by defendants,... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - Damages - 1895 - 564 pages
...applying the rule in Hadley v. Baxendale, viz., that the question is whether the damages claimed may reasonably be supposed to have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time when they made the contract, seems to be another and perhaps a better way of expressing it.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1100 pages
...things, mental anguish. (Te1. Co. v. Carter, 85 Tex. 58o; Lober v. Tel. Co., 7o Tex. 69o.) This can reasonably be supposed to have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time they made the contract, and it is for such results that the law holds the telegraph company... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1036 pages
...v. Carter, 85 Tex. 580; 34 Am. St. Kep. 826; T^oper v. Western Union Tel. Co., 70 Tex. 089. This can reasonably be supposed to have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time they made the contract, and It Is for such results that the law holds the telegraph company... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 278 pages
...future event which will excuse performance must be such a one as is expressly excepted or that cannot reasonably be supposed to have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time of making the contract; 4th, or was conditioned upon the continued existence of some specific... | |
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