Clark v. Henshaw Motor Co.

This is an action to recover compensation for breach of a contract to deliver to the plaintiff in February, 1920, an automobile of designated make. The plaintiff offered to show that, having in his employ several salesmen using that make of automobile, he was deprived of the services of one of them and thereby lost substantial profits from his business by reason of not having the automobile delivered according to the contract. This offer of proof was excluded rightly.

*388It is matter of common knowledge that an automobile is a chattel commonly bought and sold in the market. The measure of damages…