aim for damages or a recoupment from the price. The recoupment remedy is set out in section 2-717. Under this section, a buyer on notifying the seller of his intention so to do may deduct all or any part of the damages resulting from any breach from any part of the price still due."
Jones v. Atkins, 254 Ark. at 475-77, 494 S.W.2d at 450-51. The appellee argues that breach of contract and warranty claims were submitted to the jury and the $20,000.00 award could easily represent the difference between the price the appellee paid and the value of the equipment. However, if the jury intended to award the difference in the value of the equipment and the amount the appellee paid for the equipment, the award should have gone to the appellant. Instead, it went to the appellee, who kept the equipment, for which the appellant has not been fully paid, and, in addition, received a damage award of $20,000.00, when the undisputed evidence of its damages could at best total only $11,704.00. Under a breach of contract remedy, these damages would have to be offset against the remaining purchase price of the equipment. "[I]f the buyer does not reject the goods or timely revokes acceptance, he will be obligated to pay the balance due on the contract price and will be limited to the recovery of damages for breach of warranty." H. Brill, Arkansas Law of Damages Section 30-10 at 447 (1984), relying on Ark.Stat.Ann. 85-2-714, Jones v. Atkins, 254 Ark. 472, 476, 494 S.W.2d 448, 450 (1973).
The appellant correctly argues that, although the appellee submitted its case on different theories of relief under the Uniform Commercial Code, the appellee may only recover under one theory. For this proposition, it cites Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Harper, supra. In Ford Motor Credit, the appellee, Harper, sought cancellation of his contract to purchase a tractor, return of his down payment, and consequential damages. At the conclusion of the trial, the trial court found there had been a material breach of warranty by the appellant, the contract was d