Court Opinion

ID: 9694537
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 17:45:51.760469+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:03.104177
License: Public Domain

FLAHERTY, Justice,
concurring and dissenting.
I join in the majority opinion insofar as it holds that loss of primary and secondary profits are recoverable consequential damages under § 2714 and § 2715 the Uniform Commercial Code, and insofar as it holds that tort claims *133and claims for exemplary damages were properly dismissed by the court below. The majority’s rationale upon those issues is most cogent.
I dissent, however, with respect to the majority’s purported holding that good will damages are recoverable. Recovery of good will damages, meaning loss of prospective profits and business reputation, is not at issue in this case. The majority states that the plaintiffs did not make a claim for good will damages. Where no claim for such damages has been made, it is jurisprudentially unsound for this Court to raise and decide the issue. While the discussion and what might be seen as a purported decision on this point is readily dismissed as dicta, and I am inclined to disagree with it, it would be preferable, to say the least, that the issue not be addressed until we are presented with a case where good will damages are at issue.
NIX, C.J., joins this concurring and dissenting opinion.