Cothers v. Keever

Per Curiam. The court truly stated the measure of the damages to be the difference between the value of the horse in a sound state, and his value in the diseased state ; but the plaintiff in error proposed to substitute for it the difference between the value in a diseased state and the price he gave, and thus to retrieve the loss he suffered, not by the breach of the warranty, but by the terms of the bargain, taking the horse to be sound as he was warranted to be. It is impossible also to see what the value of the horse he gave in exchange had to do with the matter. If he made a bad bargain, assuming the horse he got to be sound, he is not to be reimbursed what he lost by his simplicity, as damages for a breach of the warranty. The defendant in error must make his warranty good or pay the difference; but he is not bound to surrender any advantage he fairly obtained by the bargain, and the court allowed him to retain no more. Judgment affirmed.