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Bishop Logging Co. v. John Deere Industrial Equipment Co. Case Brief

Court of Appeals of South Carolina1995Docket #1307247
455 S.E.2d 183 317 S.C. 520 28 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d (West) 190 1995 S.C. App. LEXIS 27 Contracts Torts Remedies

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tl;dr: A buyer purchased specialized equipment with a limited repair-or-replace warranty. When the equipment repeatedly failed and repairs were ineffective, the court held the limited remedy failed its essential purpose, allowing the buyer to recover consequential damages despite a contractual waiver.

Legal Significance: Establishes that under South Carolina’s UCC, a seller’s failure to effectively repair defective goods can cause a limited remedy to fail its essential purpose, thereby invalidating a separate clause that excludes consequential damages when repairability was a basic assumption of the contract.

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Bishop Logging Company (Bishop) sought to create a novel, fully mechanized swamp logging system and collaborated with John Deere Industrial Equipment Co. (John Deere) to select and modify equipment. Bishop purchased the equipment for over $600,000 under a “New Equipment Warranty.” The warranty expressly limited Bishop’s remedy to the repair or replacement of defective parts and explicitly excluded liability for consequential damages. John Deere’s representatives assured Bishop the system would work and that John Deere would support it. Despite these assurances, the equipment experienced chronic, substantial mechanical failures immediately upon use in the swamp. John Deere performed over $110,000 in warranty repairs, but the equipment never functioned reliably, causing Bishop to suffer significant financial losses from lost production. Bishop sued for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and breach of express warranty. The jury found for Bishop on all counts. John Deere appealed.

Court Holding & Legal Precedent

Issue: When a seller provides a limited repair-or-replace warranty that fails to make the goods functional, does this “failure of its essential purpose” under UCC § 36-2-719(2) also invalidate a separate contractual clause excluding consequential damages?

Yes. The limited repair-or-replace remedy failed its essential purpose because John Deere’s Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in volupta

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Legal Issue

When a seller provides a limited repair-or-replace warranty that fails to make the goods functional, does this “failure of its essential purpose” under UCC § 36-2-719(2) also invalidate a separate contractual clause excluding consequential damages?

Conclusion

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Legal Rule

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Legal Analysis

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