Bauwens v. Goethals
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Rock Island county; the Hon. Robert W. Olmsted, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1914.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Carnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action in assumpsit for breach'of a contract not to engage in a certain business in a specified locality for stated time. There was a verdict and judgment of $7,500 for the plaintiffs, Oscar Bauwens and Theophiel Claeys, from which the defendant Maurice Goethals, prosecutes this appeal. The difficult question presented is as to the measure of damages, or rather the degree of certainty of evidence required as a basis on which damages may be assessed.
The facts are as follows:
Maurice Goethals, a Belgian, in February, 1910,…
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