Judgment reversed on the law and the facts, without costs, and the matter remitted to the Official Referee for determination of the damages suffered by the tenant.
The measure of damages for breach of the covenant here involved is the difference in value between the tenant's leasehold with the covenant against competition unbroken, and the same leasehold with the covenant broken. (Parker v. Levin, 285 Mass. 125.) However, loss of net profits is usually a more...
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