Legal Opinion
Funkhouser v. J. B. Preston Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 4, 1933No. 72PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
Section 480 of the Civil Practice Act of New York, as amended by Chapter 623 of the Laws of 1927, provides for the allowance' of interest on the principal sum awarded by verdict, report or decision for breach of contract, whether the principal sum so awarded was “ theretofore liquidated or unliquidated.”
This action was brought for breach of a contract, made in 1923, for the sale by appellee to appellants of red slate granules to be delivered in agreed quantities in that year and in the three years following. The trial, in 1930, resulted in a verdict for appellee, to the amount of which…
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