Pulliam v. Schimpf
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the.Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. James T. Jones. The case stands thus : The plaintiff proves the unlawfnl violation of the contract by the defendant, breaking it up and compelling the plaintiff to abandon the profits on his part.
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Appeal from the.Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. James T. Jones. The case stands thus : The plaintiff proves the unlawfnl violation of the contract by the defendant, breaking it up and compelling the plaintiff to abandon the profits on his part. He offers to prove the net profits that were being made up to the very day of this • unlawful act, and demonstrates his ability to prove it with absolute certainty, and he shows that the defendant below continues this venture on his own account, and oilers to prove with absolute certainty exactly the profits that resulted to the…
1Opinion of the CourtHead, J.
This case formerly came before this court upon assignments, as errror, of the rulings of the court below sustaining demurrers to the complaint. — 100 Ala. 362. The contract sued upon by appellant, Pulliam, as aveired in the first count, was that he and appellee (defendant .below) agreed to establish and run, a shooting *181gallery in a certain specified building, in Mobile, which was then in possession of defendant, the business to be managed and conducted by plaintiff; under which agreement plaintiff was to fix up the room and necessary partitions in a manner suitable-for a shooting gallery, and…
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