City of Whittier v. Whittier Fuel & Marine Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• maintaining that this court will not examine on appeal documents that are not part of the record on appeal
• stating that proof of future profits entails two aspects of certainty: certainty as to amount and certainty as to causation
• holding evidence did not support damages award because plaintiff failed to prove damages were caused by defendant’s wrongful conduct
• approving jury instruction that puts on plaintiff the burden of showing damages “by the best measure that can be used under the circumstances”
• refusing to extend Beaulieu to contract cases involving lost future profits
• refusing to extend Beaulieu to contract cases involving lost future profits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).