NAJLA Associates, Inc. v. William L. Griffith & Co.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether a corporate plaintiff that recovered consequential damages for breach of contract presented sufficient evidence that those damages were within the contemplation of the contracting parties at the time they executed the contract.

NAJLA Associates, Inc., a District of Columbia corporation, executed a contract with William L. Griffith & Company of Virginia, Inc., a general contractor, to construct a shopping center known as Willow Run. David W. Peacock, president of Griffith, learned that NAJLA intended to finance the construction without a loan from…