Larry, a comedy writer, entered into a contract with Jerry, a comedian. The cont
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Larry, a comedy writer, entered into a contract with Jerry, a comedian. The contract provided that Larry would create a 15 minute comedy monologue for Jerry to use for his upcoming appearance on “Comedy Hour” a local radio program. In exchange, Jerry would pay Larry $250. All performers appearing on “Comedy Hour” are paid $500 per appearance. As Larry knows, the last time Jerry appeared on “Comedy Hour” he was asked to make special guest appearances at three local comedy clubs using the same monologue. He earned a total of $750 for those three performances. Shortly before Jerry was scheduled to appear on “Comedy Hour,” Larry told him that he did not prepare the monologue as he had promised. As a result, Jerry was forced to cancel his appearance on “Comedy Hour” and had no additional appearances. Jerry has now sued Larry for breach of contract. As the judge, what damages is Jerry entitled to, if any, how much, if any, and why?
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As per the judges decision Jerry would entitled to have compensatory damages of what would have decided in contract $250 but if Jerry would have incurred cost whimch more than contract as every performance on "Comedy Hour" is paid $500, than in that case Jerry would entitled to have $500 which is actual cost for appearance on radio show. Larry was in contract with Jerry to pay for performance on radio show but Larry didnot fulfilled the contract and fail to keep his promise so that he now have to pay Jerry.
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