Designers of Georgetown v. EC Keys & Sons

Appellee Keys was determined by the trial court after a trial without a jury to have been negligent in pumping fuel oil into the basement of appellant’s store (Designers). The court awarded damages to appellant and this appeal challenges the court’s computation of those damages. Appellant argues that various errors by the trial court led to an incorrect award of damages.

Appellant first contends that in arriving at a figure for lost profits, the trial court did not make its findings of fact with sufficient particularity to satisfy the mandate of Super.Ct.Civ.R. 52. In essence, the court…