Jarman v. Griggs’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Jarman’s expert provided the circuit court with calculations indicating that Jarman’s business should have increased its sales in 1995 and 1996, but the expert acknowledged that he could not say that lost profits resulted directly from the leaking roof or identify in which months Jarman’s business began losing sales. The expert admitted that a number of other business decisions could have caused Jarman’s lost profits. The circuit court believed that Jarman’s bartender was stealing from the business during this same period and that this affected profits. Hence, the circuit court’s conclusion that Jarman did not provide a sufficient basis for its making a “rational estimate” of lost profits was not against the weight of the evidence. Had the circuit court have calculated its rational estimate of lost profits on this evidence, it would have been engaging in pure speculation. We, therefore, affirm the circuit court’s judgment”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
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