Rissler & McMurry Co. v. Atlantic Richfield Co.

I concur with the majority in sustaining the judgment of the district court fixing the sum due from ARCO and Certified to Rissler1 but must dissent from that part of the opinion requiring the inclusion of interest. The majority present a well structured argument, the basis of which is the long and well established rule of this court that claims which are readily calculable by simple mathematical computation2 from the face of the contract3 are claims upon which prejudgment interest is to be included in the judgment as a matter of law.4 They find the parameters for computation on the face of an…