Farwell v. Warren

Citations

• 70 Ill. 28

Syllabus

<p>Exemplary damages. Where a tenant, in possession of premises, agreed with his landlord to surrender the same immediately in case of a sale, and a party, on the faith of such assurance, bought the same for the purpose of erecting a warehouse thereon, and contracted for the building of the same, and the party in possession gave possession of a part of the lot upon which to commence excavating the earth, and promised to go out of the building in a few days, so as not to delay the work, but after-wards repudiated his agreement, and refused to leave, and the workmen removed his goods and demolished the house, so as to proceed with their work: Held, in an action by the tenant against the purchaser, that this was not a case for exemplary damages, if the tenant was not estopped from claiming any.</p>