Schnierow

Plaintiff obtained judgment in the sum of $502 against defendants as damages for breach of a contract whereby the latter agreed to lease to the former a storeroom then in process of construction. Defendants appeal upon the judgment-roll.

As alleged in the complaint and found by the court, plaintiff in reliance upon defendants’ agreement, disposed of his business on Temple Street at a loss of four hundred dollars, changed his residence at a cost of $15, and incurred a loss of time, to his damage in the sum of $87, in securing another storeroom.

Conceding the loss of time and expense of removal incurred by plaintiff so .found by the court to have been a detriment proximately caused by the breach of defendants’ contract, we are unable to perceive how the loss due to the sacrifice sale of his business could be attributed to such breach. “It is the well-settled general rule of damages for any breach of contract that the damages that can be recovered for a breach are only such as may reasonably be supposed to have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time of the making of the contract, as the probable result of a breach. Other damages are too remote.” (Hunt Bros. Co. v.…