Queen City Terminals, Inc. v. General American Transportation Corp.

I

In its second proposition of law, appellant, Trinity, argues that the economic damages sustained by BP and QCT are not recoverable because the economic damages did not arise out of any personal injury or tangible property damage. Appellees, BP and QCT, argue that the mere coexistence of physical injury or property damage and economic damage makes the economic damages recoverable in tort absent privity of contract.

As a result of the city of Cincinnati’s exercising its right to revoke QCT’s street permit, QCT alleged it sustained economic damages of $6.2 million in useless terminal…