Supreme Court of the United States November 11, 1889, 47 (Smith v. Bolles)

Mr. Chief Justice Fuller

delivered the opinion of the court.

The bill of exceptions states that the court charged the jury “ as to the law by which the jury were to be governed in the assessment of damages under the issues made in the case,” that “ the measure of recovery is generally the difference between the contract price and the reasonable market value, if the property had been as