Miller v. Sullivan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Benson, J.:

This controversy is over the measure of damages for the breach of a covenant of G. F. Miller, the lessor, to make repairs, whereby a stock of pictures, picture-frames and mouldings in the leased premises, belonging to James D. Sullivan, the lessee, were injured by rain descending through a defective roof, which the lessor had agreed to keep in repair. The court instructed the jury that they might allow-the plaintiff to recover the difference between the reasonable value of the goods before and after the injury. The defendant contends- that…