FEDERAL PRACTICE-ENTRY OF JUDGMENT NOTWITHSTANDING VERDICT ON UNDISPUTED EVIDENCE

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In an action on a contract the plaintiff claimed the entire contract price as damages on the theory of an anticipatory breach by the defendant. The trial court, however, on the undisputed facts, instructed the jury that the plaintiff could recover only the damages suffered prior to the first day of the present term of court. Held, by the Circuit Court of Appeals, that the trial court should have instructed the jury to return a verdict for the plaintiff for the entire contract price, but that a new trial was not necessary and the cause should be remanded to the trial court with directions to enter judgment for the plaintiff for that sum. Barneby v. Collier, Inc., (C. C. A. 8th, 1933) 65 F. (2d) 864.

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FEDERAL PRACTICE-ENTRY OF JUDGMENT NOTWITHSTANDING VERDICT ON UNDISPUTED EVIDENCE, 32 Mich. L. Rev. 411 (1934).
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