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If you can prove that you had to pay someone else $500 more for labor
and $1000 for materials to complete the job than it would have cost had
he completed it, then you have a case.

I know someone in a similar situation, but it was not jail, just a
contractor that bailed on him. He was able to recoup some of the cost
incurred, but the legal fees ended up costing 3X what he collected.