Collins Entertainment Corp. v. Coats and Coats Rental Amusement

Collins Entertainment (plaintiff) leased video-poker machines to two bingo halls under a six-year lease requiring any purchaser of the premises to assume the lease; when American Bingo (defendant) bought the bingo halls' assets, it refused to assume the lease, and Collins sued for intentional interference with contract, presenting evidence it had enough machines to serve both the original leases and its other contracts, meaning it would have benefited from all of them absent the breach. The trial master found for Collins, applying the lost-volume-seller doctrine, and the court of appeals affirmed.