Section 50 Lost Profits

• Library: Damages 2012

Anticipated profits are recoverable only when they are made reasonably certain by proof of actual facts that present data for a rational estimate of the profits. Yaffe v. Am. Fixture, Inc., 345 S.W.2d 195, 199 (Mo. 1961); Fort Zumwalt Sch. Dist. v. Recklein, 708 S.W.2d 754, 756 (Mo. App. E.D. 1986). The amount of damages cannot be left to speculation. Sides Constr. Co. v. Arcadia Valley R‑II Sch. Dist., 565 S.W.2d 761, 768 (Mo. App. E.D. 1978). In Tnemec Co. v. North Kansas City Development Co., 290 S.W.2d...