Norma Sonntag Van Moorlehem, Cross-Appellant v. The Brown Realty Company, a New Mexico Corporation, Cross-Appellee

CAMPOS, District Judge:

This appeal requires us to determine whether the trial court used the correct formula in an action at law to award damages to Plaintiff-Appellee (hereinafter referred to as “Plaintiff”) for Defendant-Appellant’s (hereinafter referred to as “Defendant”) breach of a contract to purchase her home. The district court awarded Plaintiff “consequential damages” — mainly, the interest Plaintiff would have earned with the net proceeds from the guaranteed sale of the house to Defendant from the contracted date of sale until trial. Defendant contends that since Plaintiff always…