ARGENTINIS v. GOULD

(14110)

219 Conn. 151 (1991)

TAKIS ARGENTINIS v. PAUL L. GOULD ET AL. PAUL L. GOULD v. P. A. ARGENTINIS ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released June 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene E. Cederbaum, for the appellants (Paul L. Gould et al.).

Daniel B. Glass, for the appellees (Takis Argentinis et al.).

SHEA, GLASS, COVELLO, BORDEN and F. X. HENNESSY, JS.


GLASS, J.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether a builder's breach of a construction contract by failure of substantial performance permits the nonbreaching owner to collect damages unreduced by the outstanding balance of the contract price that the owner avoids paying by virtue of the breach. We conclude that the failure so to reduce an owner's damages affords the owner an unconscionable recovery in excess of his actual loss suffered by reason of the breach...

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