the Project completely. The Defendants contended, on the other hand, that only the deadlines in the Project timetable were abated pending buyout negotiations. 4 . Nowell By and Through Nowell v. Universal Elec. Co., 792 F.2d 1310, 1312 (5th Cir.1986). 5 . Coffel, 284 F.3d at 630. 6 . See id. 7 . The jury instruction on breach of contract stated: "Unless you find that these Defendants refused or made it impossible for DIJO, Inc. to construct and manage a Comfort Inn hotel in Tunica, Mississippi, then you must find for these Defendants as to the Plaintiff's claim for breach of contract." 8 . Although few cases exemplify this type of breach of contract claim, Mississippi law appears to permit it. See, e.g., Bolling v. Red Snapper Sauce Co., 97 Miss. 785, 53 So. 394, 394-95 (1910) (<HOLDING>); Gravette v. Golden Saw Mill Trust, 170 Miss.
holding that absent an independent tort a plaintiff alleging a breach of contract may only seek to recover the damages flowing from the breach holding plaintiff not required to perform its residual contract obligations after defendants material breach recognizing that where a plaintiff failed to perform because of the defendants breach the plaintiff could recover damages caused by the defendants breach holding that party may not recover damages for breach of contract where its own bad faith caused the other partys breach holding that after jury findings of dual breach unchallenged finding that defendants breach was not excused based on prior material breach of plaintiff constituted implicit finding that there was no material breach by plaintiff