Brabham v. So. Express Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
October 2005
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“The [successor's] position does not appeal to us; it is an attempt to dodge the damages that [the plaintiff] has sustained by a quirk and technical question of the law, and smacks too much of a skin game, and hand stacked and dealt to dealer from the bottom of the deck.... By its action [the successor] has allowed the [predecessor] to go out of existence and now proposes to let the [plaintiff] whistle for his money, and by its technicality, which would besmirch the character of any honest man, smacks its lips and licks its chops and congratulates itself on its shrewdness in avoiding its payment of a just claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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