Bass v. Carpenter

Shulman, Judge.

Plaintiff brought suit against defendant for breach of a purported lease agreement, wherein plaintiff had allegedly agreed to rent 101 acres of farm land from the defendant (for the purpose of growing corn) at the price of $26 per acre. From a judgment awarding plaintiff $1,000 in damages, defendant appeals. We affirm.

1. Appellant contests appellee’s recovery of damages, as based on lost profits, claiming that under the circumstances of this case lost profits are too remote and speculative to be recoverable. We cannot agree.

"The general rule that the loss of expected profits…