What are the damages for wrongful damage to personal property?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mawji v. Chew, 2021 BCCRT 991 (CanLII):
16. In negligence claims such as this one, damages are awarded to the innocent party to put them in the original position they would have been in if the negligence had not occurred. See, for example, Blackwater v. Plint, 2005 SCC 58 at paragraph 78. So, damages for wrongful damage to personal property will generally equal the cost of repairing or replacing the damaged property.
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