 | 1901 - 820 Seiten
...suit for damages to receive compensation for his loss, — compensation and nothing more. "Damages are given as a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to the plaintiff for any injury actually received by him from the defendant. They should be precisely commensurate with... | |
 | Floyd Russell Mechem - 1902 - 788 Seiten
..."damages are given as a compensation or satisfaction to the plaintiff for an injury actually sustained by him from the defendant. They should be precisely...nor less; and this whether it be to his person or his estate," — although it Is stoutly maintained by so eminent an author as Mr. Sedgwick that this... | |
 | Thomas Atkins Street - 1906 - 542 Seiten
...well to state the point in controversy a little more fully. " Damages," says Professor Greenleaf, " are given as a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction...actually received by him from the defendant. They pensat1o11should be precisely commensurate with the injury, neither more nor less; and this whether... | |
 | 1912 - 2044 Seiten
...as compensation. Greenleaf, in his work on Evidence, vol. 2, p. 276, says : They (that is damages) should be precisely commensurate with the injury,...and this, whether it be to his person or estate." To be sure, these damages must always be the natural and proximate consequence of the wrongful act... | |
 | 1913 - 1148 Seiten
...is the one which the very nature of the contract suggests was contemplated by the parties. "Damages are given as a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction...injury actually received by him from the defendant, and should be precisely commensurate with the injury, neither more nor less. 2 Greenleaf, Ev. § 253.... | |
 | 1913 - 1274 Seiten
...of the contract suggests was contemplated by the parties. "Damages are given яв а c-oinpeusation, recompense, or satisfaction to the plaintiff for an...injury actually received by him from the defendant, and should be precisely commensurate with the injury, neither more nor less. 2 Greenleaf, Ev. § 253.... | |
 | 1916 - 1316 Seiten
...recovery of compensation. Thus in Birdsall v. Coolidge, 93 US 64, 23 L. Ed. 802, the court say: "Damages are given as a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction...injury actually received by him from the defendant. Compensatory damages and actual damages mean the same thing; that is, that the damages shall be the... | |
 | Reinhold Klotz - 1916 - 706 Seiten
...recovery, should the illegality operate to reduce the damages to a merely nominal amount? "Damages are given as a compensation, recompense or satisfaction to the plaintiff for injury actually received by him from •Kraver v. Smith, 177 SW (Ky.) 286. 'Bolivar Mfg. Co. v. Nefonset... | |
 | New York (State). Dept. of Labor - 1918 - 638 Seiten
...action is recovery of compensation. Thus in Birdsall v. Coolidge (93 US 64) the court says: "Damages are given as a compensation, recompense or satisfaction...injury actually received by him from the defendant. Compensatory damages and actual damages mean the same thing; that is, that the damages shall be the... | |
 | New York (State). Courts - 1918 - 844 Seiten
...Department, September, 1917. [Vol. 101. for a definition of compensation, where the court says : " Damages are given as a compensation, recompense or satisfaction...injury actually received by him from the defendant. Compensatory damages and actual damages mean the same thing; that is, that the damages shall be the... | |
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Greenleaf (volume 2, § 253), that "damages are given as a compensation or satisfaction to the plaintiff for an injury actually received by him from the defendant. They should be precisely commensurate with the injury, neither more nor less; and this... 
