Farmers' Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Missouri Department of Corrections

RONNIE L. WHITE, Judge.

Missouri Department of Corrections (MDC) appeals the trial court judgment awarding Farmers’ Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Farmers’) $3,154,296 in damages for breach of contract. MDC contends the trial court erred in its application of the measure of damages by permitting recovery beyond the term of the contract. The judgment is reversed, and the case remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion.

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In 1986, the parties entered a twenty-year contract for Farmers’ to supply, at a special rate, all of the electrical needs for the MDC on its property in DeKalb County.…