Question

Lauren Barton, a single mother with three children, lived in Portland, Oregon. Cynthia VanHorn also lived in Oregon until she moved to New York City to open and operate an art gallery. VanHorn asked Barton to manage the gallery under a one-year contract for an annual salary of $72,000. To begin work, Barton relocated to New York. As part of the move, Barton transferred custody of her children to her husband, who lived in London, England. In accepting the job, Barton also forfeited her husband’s alimony and child-support payments, including unpaid amounts of nearly $30,000. Before Barton started work, VanHorn repudiated the contract. Unable to find employment for more than an annual salary Miller, Roger LeRoy. Cengage Advantage Books: Business Law Today, The Essentials: Text and Summarized Cases (p. 291). Cengage Learning. Kindle Edition.

Answer 1

The cengage learning for the mitigation is the difference between the agreed upon $72000 less what was earned from  the $25000 position that barton managed to obtain

Explanation:

Mitigation of damages:

In the case of barton v. vanhorn a court would consider barton's attempts at findings similar employment a reasonable step in mitigating her damages.

Under the doctrine of damage mitigation, a wrongfully terminated employee must look for other compartable employment, and subtract whatever you make from that job from what you request in damages.

Damages in the case would be the difference between the agreed upon $72000 less what was earned from  the $25000 position that barton managed to obtain.