Elvington v. Waccamaw Shingle Co.

Tbe legal basis of plaintiff’s cause of action is wrongful, unlawful and unwarranted interference witb tbe contract of sale made by him witb John J. Knox.

It is a violation of a legal right, recognized by law, to interfere witb contractual relation, if there be no sufficient justification for tbe interference. Pollock on Torts, 12 ed., 332. A clear and comprehensive statement of tbe principle is found in Angle v. Chicago St. P. M. & O. B. Co., 151 U. S., 55, and is in tbis language: “Wherever a man does an act which in law and in fact is a wrongful act, and such act as may, as a natural and…