Law for Business 12th Edition by James Barnes,Terry Dworkin,Eric Richards

Exercise 9

Manuma was to serve as the entertainment director/musician on Blue Hawaii's daily dinner cruise for a guaranteed one-year period. He was fired after eight months due to Blue Hawaii's financial difficulties. Blue Hawaii offered him two other positions, one involving manual labor at a shipyard, and one involving light maintenance and cleaning of a yacht. Manuma declined both offers and sued for his lost pay due under the contract. Did Manuma have a duty to accept one of the positions in order to mitigate the damages? Why