Evergreen Amusement Corp. v. Milstead

How courts have described this case

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• noting that it is left to the courts to determine a reasonable time for performance when a contract is silent
• holding lost profits not generally recoverable but creating exception for established businesses
• addressing claim for lost profits suffered as a result in delay in completion of contract
• refusing to permit plaintiff to establish damages for start-up period by using profits that same business earned in later period
• damages in contract action may include \loss\ of profits measured, not by out-of-pocket expense, but by whether there is reasonable certainty of amount of profits that were \prevented\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).