Ocean Ridge Yacht Club Associates v. Atlantic Electric Construction Co.

LETTS, Judge.

After a dispute between an owner and an original contractor over electrical work to be performed at a townhouse apartment complex, the contractor quit and the owner secured the services of another electrical firm. The owner sought damages for the original contractor’s breach. At the conclusion of the law suit, the court, based on its recollection of testimony at the bench trial, found the value of the services of the second electrical contractor to total $20,-000. In our opinion, the actual total should have been $22,500, a figure which the original contractor reluctantly…