Lowell v. Mother's Cake & Cookie Co.

How courts have described this case

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• reversing dismissal where the plaintiff pleaded that the defendant had intentionally interfered with actual offers from potential purchasers
• invoking the privilege under Restatement of Torts, section 769, that “[o]ne who has a financial interest in the business of another is privileged purposely to cause him not to enter into or continue a relation with a third person in that business if the actor (a
• although not specifically listed, monopoly is a prohibited restraint of trade under Cartwright Act
• “[t]hough not specifically listed, monopoly is a prohibited restraint of 24 trade” under the Cartwright Act”
• delivery company and bakery were not competitors so no privilege was allowed
• “[A]s a general rule, the determination of whether the defendant’s conduct of interfering with existing contracts with third persons or prospective economic advantage is privileged comprises a factual issue to be decided upon all the circumstances of the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).