Catchwords
Contract – Damages – Vendor of business failed to deliver assets compliant with warranty – Purchaser bought compliant assets from alternative supplier – Purchaser used compliant assets in business and charged fee covering costs of buying them – Whether damages measured by reference to amount purchaser was unable to recoup in using assets in business or by reference to cost of buying compliant assets at date of breach – Whether purchaser mitigated loss by charging fee covering costs of buying compliant assets.
Words and phrases – "expectation interest", "same situation ... as if the contract had been performed".