McGuire v. Lorian
McGuire v. Lorian
Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
The evidence in this case did not authorize the verdict or judgment rendered, and the instruction, No. 12, given at the instance of appellee’s counsel w-as calculated to mislead the jury. The plaintiff, in an action like this, can only recover the actual damages resulting from the breach of the contract iby the defendant. Conceding the breach of the contract to have been established by the proof (and this we do not decide), and allowing to the plaintiff the amount of the expenditures incurred by him in removing to- and from the farm of the appellant, the verdict should not have exceeded fifty or sixty dollars. The board and provisions furnished the appellee by the appellant as far as the testimony in the record shows, was ample compensation for the services rendered by him, and if not giving him a ‘reasonable sum for his labor the whole amount of damage should not exceed $175.00. The twelfth instruction given to the jury places no limit upon the amount the jury could assess as damages. They
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