Mosler Safe Co. v Maiden Lane Safe Deposit Co. (199 N.Y. 479 [1910]) established the general rule that where delays are caused by the mutual fault of the parties to a contract, a liquidated damages clause is abrogated and a claimant must resort to recovery for actual damages. It would be inequitable and illogical to allow a claimant to reap the benefit of the liquidated damages clause for its own wrongdoing (cf. X.L.O. Concrete Corp. v John T. Brady & Co.,<...
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