Green v. Finin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a claim for tortious interference with prospective economic advantage may be based on conduct that prevents the making of contracts
• holding that legal malice may occur when a party interferes “with the free exercise of another’s trade or occupation ... by preventing people, by force, threats or intimidation from trading with” the other party
• plaintiff overcame demurrer on evidence showing that “but for” defendants’ interference, the contract would have been made
• “[U]nlawful interference with the freedom to contract is actionable” when it maliciously “prevent[s] the making of a contract . . . with design to injure the plaintiff, or gain[] some advantage at [plaintiff’s] expense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).