Sanford-Brown Co. v. Patent C. Company Inc.

Atkinson, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) One of the grounds of the general demurrer asserted that the allegations of damages for alleged increase in the plaintiff’s pay roll, and for increase in the rate of insurance premiums, were too remote, speculative, and conjectural to be items of damage cognizable in law or equity. The court did not err in sustaining the demurrer on this ground. “ Remote or consequential damages are not allowed whenever they can not be traced solely to the breach of the contract, or unless they are capable of exact computation, such as the profits which…