300. Breach of Contract--Introduction Instruction No 1 Request by Plaintiff Given as Proposed Refused Withdrawn Request by Defendant Given as Modified Requested by Given on Court's Motion Judge Instruction No 1 [Name of plaintiff] claims that [he/she/it] and [name of defendant] entered into a contract for [insert brief summary of alleged contract]. [Name of plaintiff] claims that [name of defendant] breached this contract by [briefly state the alleged breach]. [Name of plaintiff] also claims that [name of defendant]'s breach of this contract caused harm to [name of plaintiff] for which [name of defendant] should pay. [Name of defendant] denies [insert denial of any of the above claims]. [Name of defendant] also claims [insert affirmative defense]. ___________________________________________________________________________ New September 2003; Revised December 2007