In estimating damages, except as provided by sections 32-03-33 and 32-03-34, the value of property to a buyer or owner thereof deprived of its possession is deemed to be the price at which the buyer or owner might have bought an equivalent thing in the market nearest to the place where the property ought to have been put into such person‘s possession, and at such time after the breach of duty upon which that person’s right to damages is founded as would suffice with reasonable diligence for that person to make such a purchase.