Key legal question
Whether the plaintiffs had proven compensable damage from the alleged mishandling of the share purchase agreement
Extracted holding
No compensable damage was proven yet, because the plaintiffs had not shown what loss would remain after reasonable collection efforts against the primary debtor and guarantor.
Extracted reasoning
In this setting, the seller’s loss is not established merely by the unpaid purchase price remaining in its assets. Damage arises only once it is shown that the claim cannot be satisfied, at least in part, through reasonable proceedings against the buyer or guarantor. Since the lower court found collection still potentially possible, the primary damage was not yet established.