Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Citation
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Parent Document
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Jurisdiction
- Missouri (state)
- Effective Date
- 1980-02-05
- Original Source
- https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1632479/hurwitz-v-kohm/ ↗
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- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
- Hurwitz v. Kohm, 594 S.W.2d 643 (1980)
Full Text
1,021 chars122 F.2d 724 (8th Cir. 1941), cert. den. 314 U.S. 694, 62 S.Ct. 365, 86 L.Ed. 555; 49 Am.Jur.2d § 178. Where a landlord elects to sue on an anticipatory breach of a lease, his measure of damages is not necessarily the unpaid rent but the value of the lessee’s performance, with appropriate reduction for any benefit accruing to the landlord by reason of his repossession of the premises. We have found no authority for the proposition that the availability of that remedy precludes a lessor from bringing successive suits against a defaulting lessee on one or more installments as they become due because the principle of res judicata bars relitigation .of an issue that could have been tried in a previous suit. That general rule of law must be presumed to give way to the more specific rule that an action grounded on anticipatory breach is an optional remedy. The doctrine of res judicata does not operate to make it mandatory. Indeed, in the first case involving these parties, the following appears at 516 S.W.2d 37: