Wisner v. Barber

By the Court,

Lord, J.:

This was an action brought to recover damages, based upon a written contract to erect a certain building as therein specified, for the consideration of $500, by reason of the defendant’s preventing its fulfillment. At the trial, the plaintiff offered to prove the profits of which he was deprived by the termination of the contract by the defendant, which, upon objection, the court refused to allow him to prove,, and this constitutes the ground of error upon which a reversal is sought. Actual damages include the direct and actual loss which a party sustains when hindered'…