Douglas v. Prescott

1. Where personal property is damaged by the tortious act of another, the measure of damages is the difference between the value of the property before the damage and afterwards. In a suit by the owner of personal property to recover the amount of its damage as the result of an alleged tortious act of another, the plaintiff, who has recovered a verdict in a certain amount, cannot complain that the court erred in charging the above rule as the true measure of the damages, and in not charging that the value of the repairs necessitated by the damage was the true measure.

2. This being a suit to…