211121P.pdf   01/31/2022  S & H Farm Supply  v.  Bad Boy
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-1121
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Stras, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Civil case - Contracts. Plaintiff establish two required elements of a 
   breach-of-contract claim - the existence of a valid contract and that the 
   alleged damages were caused by the breach - and defendant was not entitled 
   to judgment as a matter of law on plaintiffs' claim that defendant's 
   termination of the parties' dealership contract breached the contact; the 
   evidence in the case was sufficient for a reasonable jury to find there 
   was mutual assent as to the size and measurement of plaintiff's protected 
   territory; the evidence was also sufficient for a reasonable jury to 
   choose and apply plaintiffs' theory about the cause of the lost profits; 
   the evidence was also sufficient to support plaintiff's claim under 
   Missouri's outdoor power equipment statute - Mo. Rev. Stat. Sec. 407.895; 
   evidentiary challenges and claims of jury instruction error rejected; 
   award of attorneys' fees, expenses, and costs affirmed.