"Every item contained in the claim of special damage must be specifically proved and such a proof must be characterized by testimony that ties each item with the proof proffered...
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"Mesne profit is only another form for damages."
"The special damages claimed by the respondents were meticulously pleaded and strictly proved as required by law."
"General damages are those damages which the law presumes to flow from the negligence of which the plaintiff has complained. These damages must be specifically averred to have been suffered...
"The assessment of damages should be based on the pleadings and the evidence adduced, and where there is no evidence to support a claim for damages, the claim should be...
"The law is that in an action, a claim for damages is always deemed to be in issue. That being the case any allegation in pleadings that a party has...
"Special damages must be pleaded with distinct particularity and strictly proved and a court is not entitled to make an award of special damages based on conjecture or on some...
"The term strict proof required in proof of special damages means no more than that the evidence must show the same particularity as is necessary for its pleading. It should...
"This is unlike an award in general damages where, if the issue of liability is established, a trial Judge is entitled to make his own assessment of the quantum of...
"As far as I am aware, there is no known means of medically assessing the intensity or otherwise of the pain a person is going through. When related to injury,...
"In all civil matters where damages have been suffered the complainant must try in earnest to mitigate his loss. Once the plaintiff discovered he could not recover the barges despite...
"Surely, the law is trite that where a plaintiff claims more than he can prove, he is awarded the lesser amount. In the case on hand I cannot see any...
