Owens v. Fuller
Owens v. Fuller
Opinion of the Court
1. The proper measure of damages for the purchaser’s breach of a contract for the sale of personal property is the amount due on the purchase-money contracted for. In a suit by the seller against the purchaser, where the second count of the petition alleged the contract of sale and the purchase price agreed upon between the parties, but prayed for damages at the market value of the commodity sold, which alleged market value was in excess of the purchase price agreed upon,, the secpnd count was properly, on this ground, stricken on demurrer.
2. Where in such a suit the issue was whether or not the alleged contract of sale had been entered upon, the plaintiff contending that the sale had been consummated and the property had been delivered to the
3. An expression of an opinion by the court that the alleged sale was a conditional one was not made by charging the jury “ that the terms and conditions under which the sawmill was delivered to the defendant . . is a question of fact for your consideration.”
4. Since the jury found against the plaintiff’s right to recover in any amount in his suit for the breach of the alleged contract of sale, any alleged error in the charge limiting the plaintiff’s right to recover, to an amount less than that sued for, is necessarily harmless.
5. The charge of the court fairly and without prejudice to the plaintiff submitted all the issues to the jury, and the evidence supports a verdict, for the defendant in so far as it applies to the plaintiff’s suit for an alleged breach of the alleged contract of sale. The trial court therefore did not err in overruling the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.
Judgment affirmed.
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