Preferred Marketing Associates Co. v. Hawkeye National Life Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting negligent breach of contract claim and stating duty in tort action must be distinct from the duty imposed by the contract
• finding plaintiffs inability to realize a profit “was incidental to the pursuit of [defendant’s] own ends by proper means” and not actionable
• claim of interference with prospective business advantage requires showing that purpose was to damage plaintiff’s business

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).