Porches & Verandas, Inc., agrees to build a screen porch for Quinn, but fails to complete the job. Quinn hires Ramadas, Inc., to finish the project. Quinn may recover from Porches & Verandas
A) the contract price less costs of materials and labor.
B) the contract price.
C) the costs needed to complete construction.
D) profits plus the costs incurred up to the time of the breach.

Question

Porches & Verandas, Inc., agrees to build a screen porch for Quinn, but fails to complete the job. Quinn hires Ramadas, Inc., to finish the project. Quinn may recover from Porches & Verandas
A) ​the contract price less costs of materials and labor.
B) ​the contract price.
C) ​the costs needed to complete construction.
D) ​profits plus the costs incurred up to the time of the breach.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Quinn may recover the costs needed to complete construction from Porches & Verandas because they breached the contract by failing to complete the job. This would allow Quinn to be in the same position he would have been in had Porches & Verandas completed the job as promised. The other choices do not take into account the additional costs that Quinn had to incur by hiring Ramadas to finish the project.