Oxley contracts to buy a pizza oven from restaurant supplies warehouse (rsw) for $2,500, but rsw fails to deliver. oxley buys the appliance else-where for $3,500. oxley's measure of damages is
Oxley's damages are calculated by determining what harms he suffered from RSW's failure to perform. Because he paid $1,000 more than he expected, $1,000 would be his damages.