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Ruling: If it were plausible to read the contract as not allowing for refund in this case, then we would employ the rule that "one who needs the contract has the lower hand" (Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 54:5) to say that since pl is trying to use the clause to extract money from def, they cannot do so. However, in this case, it is implausible. The contract states that the minimum number of people at the Shabbat is 80, and the event was described as an SSB. Since more than 50 people could not gather and since the wedding was postponed, the event as ordered is impossible. Therefore, pl have a contractual right to a refund.
While pl agreed to settle for a credit rather than a return of money, there is no indication that pl agreed to the strict conditions def imposed on the refund. Since the two have not agreed on an event that is acceptable to both, that proposal does not erase the right to the refund.
It is still a question whether def can take off for expenses he incurred in providing for pl’s event. If def is seen as working for pl, then he deserves to be paid for the expenses he incurred on pl’s behalf (Rama, CM 91:3). If, though, def was in effect selling food and services, then the expenses he incurred were his own, and this seems the stronger way of viewing the matter. Also, def was asked to provide receipts and detailed claims over what he spent the claimed money on, and what he produced was very unconvincing. Also, pl cancelled a week before the SSB, and although def claimed he cooked a tremendous amount in advance and froze it, this is strange for a high-level caterer to do for a small event. Finally, the videos of def’s feeding the soldiers show him barbequing on the spot, i.e, it wasn’t cooked previously. Therefore, the great majority of def’s defenses were rejected and he had to return almost all of the down payment.
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