2011 California Code
Civil Code
DIVISION 4. GENERAL PROVISIONS [3274 - 9566]
ARTICLE 1. Damages for Breach of Contract
Section 3316


CA Civ Code § 3316 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

The detriment caused by the breach of a carrier s obligation to deliver freight, where he has not converted it to his own use, is deemed to be the value thereof at the place and on the day at which it should have been delivered, deducting the freightage to which he would have been entitled if he had completed the delivery.

(Enacted 1872.)

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