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Ruling: There are two possible ways to interpret the contract; the first is as follows. Def obligated himself to pay for close to 200 campers at a price of 13 shekel per child. According to this, at the moment that pl arrived to run the workshop, def became obligated to pay 2600 shekel (based on Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 333:1). It would be def’s responsibility to change the order before the work began, and, as it stands, def would have to pay for another 66 children.
The second interpretation is as follows. Def obligated himself to pay 13 shekel per child. Although the approximate number of children was set at 200, the more telling matter is that the sum total was left open. According to this interpretation, pl actually deserved to be refunded for the 30 children he paid for who did not take part in the workshop.
Beit din accepted the second interpretation, because the sum total is the most telling part of such a contract and a minimum payment should have been written down if there was some type of obligation of this sort. Therefore, pl has to return 390 shekel.
Beit din agrees in principle with pl that since he had to prepare for at least 200 children, def should pay for him for the supplies that are involved. This is based on the Shulchan Aruch (Choshen Mishpat 333:8): "If one says to a craftsman: ‘Make something for me and I will buy it from you, and the craftsman made it and the other one does want to buy it and it is something that if he does not buy it right away, it will get ruined, he must pay." However, in our case, the supplies are not things that will get destroyed if def does not take them. Therefore, def does not have to compensate for those supplies. Rather, if pl does not want to store the supplies until he needs them, he can sell them if he likes.
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