Atkinson v. Morse
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Alpena. (Emerick, J.) Assumpsit. Defendant ' brings error. The facts are stated in the opinion. As to recovery of loss of profits as damages in suit for violation of labor contract, see 1 Suth.
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Error to Alpena. (Emerick, J.) Assumpsit. Defendant ' brings error. The facts are stated in the opinion. As to recovery of loss of profits as damages in suit for violation of labor contract, see 1 Suth. Dam. 106, 109; McKinnon v. McEwan, 48 Mich. 108; Allis v. McLean, Id. 428; Goodrich v. Hubbard, 51 Id. 68; Aber v. Bratton, 60 Id. 357. Speculative or contingent profits, or any injury to the general business of the plaintiff, are not allowed in estimating the damages sustained by breach of contract: Equitable Gas Light Co. v. Baltimore Coal Tar Co., 65 Md. 73, and cases cited. As to recovery…
1Opinion of the CourtOhamplin, J.
Plaintiffs declared specially on a verbal ■contract made with the defendant, by the terms of which plaintiffs allege they were to cut, haul, and deliver, on the banks of the Lower South Branch of Thunder Bay river, all the merchantable cedar on a description, of land known as the “White eighty,” owned by defendant; the defendant to pay *278therefor, from time to time, as the operation progressed, at prices agreed upon, in supplies, etc., and the balance, over and above the amount so furnished, on the final accounting, when the work should terminate, if anything should then be found due.
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