Snow v. Western Savings & Loan Ass'n

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that a defendant properly may interfere intentionally with another’s contract by appropriate means to protect an interest of the defendant
• “[a] determination of good faith involves an inquiry into the party’s motive and purpose as well as actual intent”
• conduct was intentional where interferer 27 intended result or knew it was “substantially certain to be produced” by his conduct
• Whether defendant acted improperly is determined by “weighing the social importance of the interest the defendant seeks to advance against the interest invaded.”
• “The tort is intentional in the sense that [the defendant] must have intended to interfere with the [plaintiffs] contract or have known that this result was substantially certain to be produced by its conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).