Wilson v. Stocks

BROWN, Justice.

Action of assumpsit by a tenant farmer igainst his landlord for breach of the rental contract; the trial resulting in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.

Along with other elements of damages claimed in the sixth count of the complaint, on which the case was tried, the plaintiff claimed that he “lost the profits which would have accrued to him in making the said contract had he been allowed to continue to carry out his part of the contract.” The count contained averments showing the value of the labor expended in the preparation of the lands and planting, in part, up to the…