Hall v. White
Hall v. White
Addendum
On Rehearing.
Appellant has filed a motion asking this court to discuss his different assignments of error. This motion is granted, and in complying with the same, we dispose of his assignments as follows:
This is a suit by appellee against appellant for damages growing out of breach of •contract. Appellee alleged the different elements of the contract, some of them being, to wit, that appellee was to furnish him a home and was to give him a portion of the crop and a portion of the increase in the stock and profits from the milk and from other things which were to be done jointly by appellant and appellee. A part of the contract was that appellant was to have a house to live in, and was to live on the premises of appellant during the year of the contract.
“Plaintiff further shows the court that the cost of moving and the rent of the house from now until the termination of said contract is reasonably worth $100, and the cost of moving is $12.”
This assignment is overruled. Under the contract, as alleged by appellee, it was the duty of appellant to furnish him a house for the year, and in discharging appellant, as alleged in the petition, the loss of the house and the expenses incurred by appellant in moving to another house were proper elements of damage; such damage being reasonably within the contemplation of the parties at the time of the breach of the contract. Railway Co. v. Bigham, 90 Tex. 223, 38 S. W. 162.
By his seventh assignment, appellant-complains of the admission of testimony as to the expenses of moving. This assignment is overruled. If appellant had contracted with appellee to furnish him a home during the year, and wrongfully discharged him, he must have reasonably foreseen at the time he made such contract and at the time he breached the same, if he did breach it, that appellee would be compelled to move, and that it would cost him something to move. As to whether or not this cost of moving was an element of damage was a question of fact for the jury, and no error was committed by the court in admitting this testimony.
Milk sales. 131.00
Crops . 30.00
Pigs. 10.00
Moving. 12.00
Rent . 90.00
Wages. 155.00
Aggregating . $442.00
Plaintiff testified that on the 15th day of August he went to work for Dr. A. Nelson at a salary of $35 per month, aggregating, from such time until the termination of the contract, $157.50, which would leave a difference, under plaintiff’s testimony, in the amount he would have earned under his contract and the amount actually earned by him, of $285. Under appellee’s testimony he could not recover a greater sum than $285. We rather .think this assignment should be sustained.
If appellee will remit his judgment to $285 within ten days hereof, this case will be affirmed; otherwise it will be reversed and remanded for another trial.
Opinion of the Court
After a careful examination of the record in this ease, together with the briefs of counsel for the respective. parties, we have come to the conclusion that no reversible error is shown, and the cause should, therefore, be affirmed; and it is so ordered.
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