Excerpt from Essentials to the Law of Damages The purpose of this book is to state clearly the rules of the law of Damages, to comment upon and illustrate the workings of the rules, and to present important recent developments in this field. An effort is made to cultivate in the student an independent judgment as to the correctness of statements of principle. For this purpose, comparisons of adverse holdings are made, and questionable holdings are questioned or criticized. It is not intended that this work contain any extended treatment of the law of tort and contract. Questions of liability are so interwoven with questions as to the measure of damages that it is necessary to devote small portions of the book to treatment of the primary question of the defendants liability, as is done in all books on this subject. In determining the amount of space to be given to each portion of the general subject, regard has been had to the relative importance of the parts and to their complexity and difficulty. The citations of cases and quotations from them and other authorities have been selected from a large mass of material gathered from almost every possible source during the years in which the writer has written articles upon and taught this subject. Many of the cases quoted, cited, or used as illustrations, are leading cases, and to these have been added such other cases as seem valuable for purposes of instruction. In the selection of cases for illustrative purposes, the element of human interest has never been lost sight of; for the student must be interested while instructed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.