Does a plaintiff have an obligation to pay damages for breach of contract?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stewart v. Stewart, 2014 BCSC 766 (CanLII):
The plaintiff referred to Haack v. Martin, 1927 CanLII 57 (SCC), [1927] S.C.R. 413 for the proposition that difficulty in assessing damages does not relieve a wrongdoer of the obligation to pay for damages for breach of contract.
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