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T "The true grounds of decision (i. e., in cases of this sort) are considerations of policy and of social advantage, and it is vain to suppose that solutions can be attained merely by logic and the general propositions of law which nobody disputes."2 The purpose of this article is to consider the methods of approach adopted and the tests applied by the Supreme Court of Illinois to determine the liability of persons for preventing the formation or causing the termination of business relations where no breach of contract is involved and where the means employed do not include fraud, force or a reasonable apprehension thereof, or intimidation, actual or constructive.3 Our purpose also is to analyze such methods of approach and tests, both on principle and in view of the conclusions reached thereby, to point out what seems to us to be an error existing therein, and to suggest what may be a more helpful and logical method of approach to the problems involved. Judge Cardozo, in writing of "The Nature of the Judicial Process" and in referring to the "Adherence to Precedent,"4 says: "Finally there remains a percentage, not large indeed, and yet not so small as to be negligible, where a decision one way or the other will 1. Of the Chicago bar. 2. Vegelahn v. Guntner 167 Mass. 106. 3. We have excluded from consideration all cases such as Doremus v. Hennessy 176 Ill. 608, Wilson v. Hey 232 Ill. 389, Barnes v. Typographical Union 232 Ill. 406, O'Brien v. People 216 Ill. 354, in which force, threats, intimidation, etc., were used, where the law governing such situations is well settled. 4. "The Nature of the Judicial Process," by Benjamin N. Cardozo, at p. 165. See also Holmes "The Common Law" page 35. |