River Gear Company and Tours & Trips,Inc.,enter into a contract on August 1 for the sale of fifty inflatable river rafts. Tours & Trips cancels the con-tract ten days later. River Gear is unable to sell the rafts to another buyer. River Gear can

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Since Tours & Trips cancelled the contract within a reasonable time, River Gear can recover the contract price from Tours & Trips, but must hold the rafts for it. This is because River Gear has a duty to mitigate its damages by attempting to resell the rafts to another buyer. It cannot simply keep the rafts and recover the contract price from Tours & Trips.