HUNSTEIN, Justice.
We granted certiorari to determine whether OCGA § 13-6-13 authorizes the award of prejudgment interest on a judgment granting relief only in the form of specific performance. For the reasons set forth below, we answer this question in the negative. We therefore reverse the judgment below to the extent it awarded prejudgment interest under OCGA § 13-6-13, but we also remand for a determination as to whether prejudgment interest may nonetheless be awarded in this case under OCGA § 7-4-15.
Appellees Larry Garner, Sr. and Larry Garner, Jr. were minority shareholders in the Callaway Blue Springs Water Company (CBSW), a closely held corporation formed in 2001 by the Garners and majority shareholder Cason Callaway, Jr. In 2007, the Garners sued Callaway
1. The sole question before this Court is whether OCGA § 13-6-13 authorizes the award of prejudgment interest on an award of specific performance. Situated within the chapter of the Georgia Code addressing contract damages, the statute provides:
OCGA § 13-6-13. The statute thus permits "the damages" sustained as the result of a breach of contract to be "increased by the addition of legal interest."
Specific performance is not a form of damages. See generally PMS Const. Co. v. DeKalb County, 243 Ga. 870(2), 257 S.E.2d 285 (1979) (enumerating specific performance and damages as distinct remedies for breach of contract). To the contrary, specific performance is an equitable remedy that generally is appropriate only where an award of damages would be insufficient to compensate the injured party for the other's breach. OCGA § 23-2-130 (specific performance generally proper where "the damages recoverable at law would not be an adequate compensation for nonperformance"); see also OCGA § 23-1-4 (equitable relief not available "where an adequate and complete remedy is provided by law"). One who is injured by another's breach is in fact required to elect between these two distinct remedies. Clayton v. Deverell, 257 Ga. 653(3), 362 S.E.2d 364 (1987).
Indeed, an award of contract damages in this case would have looked very different than the award of specific performance. As applied to the breach of a stock purchase agreement, "the proper measure of damages . . . is the difference between the contract price and the market value of the stock at the time of the breach." Brown v. Reeves, 164 Ga.App. 89, 90, 296 S.E.2d 393 (1982) (Sognier, J., concurring specially); see also generally OCGA § 13-6-1 (contract damages are intended to "compensat[e] for the injury sustained as the result of the breach of contract"). Thus, the measure of contract damages here would have been the difference between the value of the CBSW stock on the date the Callaways should have consummated the purchase and the $160 per share contract price. Whatever amount may have been yielded by this calculation is vastly different from the amount—the total purchase price—that was awarded as specific performance.
In short, "the damages" as contemplated in OCGA § 13-6-13 simply does not include the remedy of specific performance. Prejudgment interest under OCGA § 13-6-13 is therefore not available on an award of specific performance.
2. Prejudgment interest may yet be authorized, however, under OCGA § 7-4-15. See Gwinnett County v. Old Peachtree Partners, LLC, 329 Ga.App. 540, 764 S.E.2d 193 (2014) (affirming award of prejudgment interest under OCGA § 7-4-15 on purchase money owed as the result of award of specific performance). OCGA § 7-4-15 provides for the award of interest on "[a]ll liquidated demands, where by agreement or otherwise the sum to be paid is fixed or certain," running from the date such fixed sum becomes due.
Crisler v. Haugabook, 290 Ga. 863, 864, 725 S.E.2d 318 (2012). A demand is liquidated when the sum owed is fixed and certain, meaning "there [is] no bona fide controversy over the amount." Those Certain Underwriters at Lloyds London v. DTI Logistics, Inc., 300 Ga.App. 715, 722(4), 686 S.E.2d 333 (2009). See also Hughes v. Great Southern Midway, Inc., 265 Ga. 94, 95(2), 454 S.E.2d 130 (1995) (prejudgment interest may have been authorized where "the measure of damages from breach [of the contract] was ascertainable"). The record reflects that the Garners expressly referenced OCGA § 7-4-15 as the basis for an award of prejudgment interest in their proposed conclusions of law submitted after trial but before the entry of judgment. Whether the Garners made a sufficient demand for prejudgment interest, see Crisler, 290 Ga. at 864, 725 S.E.2d 318, and are otherwise entitled to recover under OCGA § 7-4-15, are questions to be resolved by the trial court on remand.
Judgment affirmed in part and reversed in part and case remanded with direction.
All the Justices concur.