Questão jurídica principal
Whether interest paid on the mortgage credit for the delay period constituted recoverable contractual damage.
Decisão extraída
No separate recovery was justified for those interest payments, because the buyers would have borne them even with timely performance and the delay did not itself cause that loss.
Fundamentação extraída
Damage is measured by the difference between actual and hypothetical net assets after the delay ended. The mere loss of use of the villa may be a cause of damage but is not damage in itself; there was no causal link between the temporary deprivation of the villa and the interest payments.