Walsh v. Maners’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “A well-settled equitable principle has been set out as follows by the Supreme Court: “[E]quity regards the substance rather than the form, or . .. equity regards the substance and intent, not the form. ...” Equity looks beyond the mere form in which the transaction is clothed and shapes its relief in such way as to carry out the true intent of the parties to the agreement, and to this end all the facts and circumstances of the transaction, the conduct of the parties thereto, and their relations to one another and to the subject-matter, are subjects for consideration.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. Cotten