Question: Need help understanding the implications of a fact pattern, especially the legal issues that arise. How should I analyze the facts stated in the fact

Need help understanding the implications of a fact pattern, especially the legal issues that arise.

How should I analyze the facts stated in the fact pattern regarding each legal issue identified and the resolutions based on the facts.If the outcome of any issue would be different based on any facts or information necessary based on analysis, what facts would explain their importance.

Also, as a trier of fact in this case, whose favor would you rule and why?What would be the winning party's remedies be and why?

Here's the fact pattern:

WE LOVE MEAT is in the meat processing business.When WE LOVE MEAT opted to purchase the necessary equipment for a smokehouse and build a smokehouse facility at its plant, it contacted SMOKEHOUSES R US, which designs, manufactures and installs facilities for food processing, concerning the design and construction by WE LOVE MEAT of its new smokehouse facility. SMOKEHOUSES R US represented that it was an expert in this field and was fully capable of designing and building the facility in which the smokehouse equipment to be purchased by WE LOVE MEAT was to be installed, and in installation of WE LOVE MEAT's smokehouse equipment, all in accordance with applicable codes and in a timely manner.

On January 14, 2016, SMOKEHOUSES R US provided WE LOVE MEAT with a Budget Quotation for the construction of the smokehouse facility and the installation of the smokehouse equipment which stated that the entire project would cost $60,000 and set forth the terms pursuant to which SMOKEHOUSES R US would provide goods and services for the project. Pursuant to those terms SMOKEHOUSES R US would design, construct and oversee the project including the installation of the smokehouse equipment and that all work would be done in a continuous time frame.

Based on the represented expertise of SMOKEHOUSES R US and the terms of the Budget Quotation, WE LOVE MEAT contracted with SMOKEHOUSES R US on February 1, 2016 to design, construct and oversee the project for $60,000 and paid a down payment of $20,000.An additional payment of $20,000 was to be paid when the work commenced with the balance due upon completion of the project.SMOKEHOUSES R US commenced work on February 28, 2016 and although SMOKEHOUSES R US worked on the project after February 28, 2016, by the end of June of 2016 the work was still not completed.

WE LOVE MEAT sued SMOKEHOUSES R US alleging that (1) SMOKEHOUSES R US failed to properly design, build and oversee the project, (2) the smokehouse which had been purchased by WE LOVE MEAT was installed improperly and in the wrong area, (3) that much of the work for which SMOKEHOUSES R US was contracted was not completed, and (4) the work that was done by SMOKEHOUSES R US was not done properly, and (5) when WE LOVE MEAT tried to get SMOKEHOUSES R US to repair its deficient work and to complete the project, SMOKEHUSES R US said it would do so only if WE LOVE MEAT paid SMOKEHOUSES R US an additional $75,000.WE LOVE MEAT claimed that in order to repair and complete the work to be performed by SMOKEHOUSES R US, WE LOVE MEAT had to pay another contractor $100,000 and that as a result of the failure of SMOKEHOUSES R US to perform under the contract, there was a substantial delay in WE LOVE MEAT being able to have the project completed and begin cooking and selling its products which resulted in $50,000 of lost profits to WE LOVE MEAT.

SMOKEHOUSES R US contends that (1) WE ARE MEAT only paid $10,000 at the commencement of the work and failed to pay anything further and therefore it had no duty to repair any defective work or to complete the project (2) it performed all services in accordance with the applicable standard of care and in a workmanlike manner, and (3) the evidence demonstrates that there was no deadline set for the work nor did WE ARE MEAT state that time was of the essence when it hired SMOKEHOUSES R US.

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