the accident. claiming that the repairs did not restore his car to its pre-accident condition and value. See id. After a bench trial, the court entered judgment for the insure , 519 P.2d 667, 673 (1974) ("When an insurer makes an election to repair or rebuild under a 'repair, restore or replace clause’ in its policy, the insurer is then obligated to put the vehicle in substantially the same condition as it was prior to the collision so as to render it as valuable and as serviceable as before.”); Dependable Ins. Co. v. Gibbs, 218 Ga. 305, 127 S.E.2d 454, 461 (1962); Eby v. Foremost Ins. Co., 141 Mont. 62, 374 P.2d 857, 858 (1962) (following Rossier v. Union Automobile Ins. Co., 134 Or. 211, 291 P. 498 (1930) ); Campbell v. Calvert Fire. Ins. Co., 234 S.C. 583, 109 S.E.2d 572, 577 (1959) (<HOLDING>) (footnote omitted); Nat’l Farmers Union Prop.
holding the measure of damages is the difference between the value of the automobile prior to the upset and its value when prepared and presented to the plaintiff for acceptance holding that unless the collision resulted in a total loss the measure of recovery is the difference between the fair market value of the vehicle in the condition in which it was immediately prior to the collision and its value thereafter holding that if the insurer cannot return the vehicle to substantially the same condition then the actual cash value is the appropriate measure where insured sued for damages caused by insurers inappropriate election to repair and the value after repairs was almost sixty percent less than its preloss value holding there cannot be a complete restoration of the property unless it can be said that there has been no diminution of value after repair of the car and adding that the appropriate and fair measure of damages could be achieved by awarding either the difference between the fair cash value of the car before and after the collision or similarly the cost of repairs plus any diminution in value holding that to find the measure of damages as the difference in market value immediately before and after the collision would be arbitrarily reading out of the policy the right of defendant to make repairs or replace the damaged part with materials of like kind and quality