Fresher Foods, Inc., orally agrees to buy from Dale, a farmer, one thousand bushels of corn for $1.25 per bushel. Fresher Foods pays $125 down and agrees to pay the remainder of the purchase price on delivery, which is scheduled for one week later. When Fresher Foods tenders the balance of $1,125 on the scheduled day of delivery and requests the corn, Dale refuses to deliver it. Fresher Foods sues Dale for damages, claiming that Dale breached their oral contract. Can Fresher Foods recover? If so, to what extent?

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The Answer of Fresher Foods, Inc., orally agrees to buy from Dale, a farmer, one thousand bushels of corn for $1.25 per bushel. Fresher Foods pays $125 down and agrees to pay the remainder of the purchase price on delivery, which is scheduled for one week later. When Fresher Foods tenders the balance of $1,125 on the scheduled day of delivery and requests the corn, Dale refuses to deliver it. Fresher Foods sues Dale for damages, claiming that Dale breached their oral contract. Can Fresher Foods recover? If so, to what extent?