SLOANE, INC. v. HOUSE & ASSOCIATES

No. 10, September Term, 1987.

311 Md. 36 (1987)

532 A.2d 694

DAVID SLOANE, INC. ET AL. v. STANLEY G. HOUSE & ASSOCIATES, INC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 30, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter A. Oleniewski (Ashley Joel Gardner, Ian Charles Ballon and Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A., on brief), Silver Spring, for appellant.

Arthur G. House (Hadley & House, on brief), Bethesda, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE and ADKINS, JJ., and JAMES F. COUCH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), Specially Assigned.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

In this action an advertising agency recovered damages for an advertiser's breach of an exclusive agency contract. The principal question presented is whether the award is excessive because the plaintiff's fixed costs of doing business were not deducted in computing damages for "lost profits."

By a written contract effective January 9, 1978, appellant and cross-appellee, David Sloane, Inc., trading as "Sassafras!" (Sloane), appointed appellee...

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