Ayers v. John B. Daniel Co.

The rule against the recovery of vague, speculative, or uncertain damages relates more especially to the uncertainty as to cause, rather than uncertainty as to the measure orcextent of the damages. Mere difficulty in fixing their exact amount, where proximately flowing from the alleged injury, does not constitute a legal obstacle in the way of their allowance, when the amount .of the recovery comes within that authorized with reasonable certainty by the legal evidence submitted. 17 C. J. 756, 757. Accordingly, where, as in the instant case, the plaintiff proves that he gave a dealer an order…