Court Opinion

ID: 9702447
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 23:11:49.600131+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:37.568634
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JONES, Chief Judge
(dissenting in part).
I agree with the opinion and conclusions of the majority, except for the item of lost profits.
In all the circumstances of this case I do not believe that lost profits during a post-war period for a building originally constructed for war purposes are sufficiently established by a showing of profits which plaintiff made during the same post-war period in buildings which it had constructed for and which for a long time it had operated in its regular business.
Instead of lost profits, which are to some degree necessarily speculative, I would allow plaintiff the reasonable rental value of the average space occupied by the defendant, as found by the trial commissioner, for the 67-day period of excess occupancy, to wit, $11,610.
I agree to the other items as set out in the opinion of the court.
WHITAKER, Judge, joins in this dissent.