 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1897 - 796 Seiten
...recover against a third person who had maliciously procured his discharge. It was said by the court: "Merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact; still, if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff, or benefiting... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1913 - 712 Seiten
...is thus invaded has a legal ground of action for such wrong." The court recognized the doctrine that merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be unlawful in law or in fact, and that lawful competition that may injure the business of another is... | |
 | 1908 - 1156 Seiten
...the particular case does produce such an Injury, an action on the case will lie." And again he said: "Merely to persuade a person to break his contract...law or fact, as In the second case put by Coleridge, CJ But if the persuasion be used for the Indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff, or of benefiting... | |
 | 1898 - 1132 Seiten
...or an act illegal on his part, or an act otherwise Imposing an actionable liability on him. * « » Merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful In law or fact, * * * but, If the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff or of benefiting... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1890 - 1052 Seiten
...cases, the law would, in some instances, refuse to recognize what manifestly is true in fact; .... that merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact, still, if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff or benefiting the... | |
 | Robert Campbell - 1894 - 868 Seiten
...applied to such a case as Lumley v. Gye, supra, the question is whether all the conditions are by such a case fulfilled. The first is that the act of the...fact, as in the second case put by COLERIDGE, J., 2 E. & B., at p. 247. But if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff,... | |
 | William Packer Prentice - 1894 - 578 Seiten
...visited upon over zealous and troublesome emissaries of strikers' organizations. borne concurring): "That merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact, * * * but if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff, or of benefiting... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - 1895 - 628 Seiten
...another." In Bowen v. Hall, 6 QB Div. 338, it was said by Brett, J. (Lord Selborne concurring), that " merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact : . . . but if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff, or of benefiting... | |
 | 1899 - 846 Seiten
...plaintiff is present. This was the principle of Bowen v. Hall, where it had been laid down as follows: " Merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact. . . . But if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff, or of benefiting... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1899 - 734 Seiten
...passage I desire to quote from the decision of the Court of Appeal in Bowen v. Hall (ubi sup.) -. " Merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful. But if the persuasion is used for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff, or of benefiting... | |
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But if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff, or of benefiting the defendant at the expense of the plaintiff, it is a malicious act which is in law and in fact a wrong act, and therefore a wrongful act, and therefore... 
