Sullivan v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The code has made no material changes in the primary rights of parties, or in the causes of action, nor has it given any new redress for wrongs perpetrated. It has only changed the mode by which such redress is reached and applied. The rights and remedies (using the term £ remedy ’ in the sense of ‘ redress ’) are still the same. •X- -X- -X- * # “ The action below was an action for the recovery of personal property and damages for its detention. It was an action in the nature of the old action of trover. It will not be denied that in actions of that kind, under the former practice, (as a general rule,) damages for detention beyond the property itself could be, and were uniformly recovered, such damages being measured by different rules, according to the character of the property and the circumstances of each case. See case of McDowell v. Murdock, 1 Nott & McCord, 237, where the court said : £ It has lately been determined by this court, in several cases, that a jury cannot give vindictive damages in an action of trover. The value of the property, 'with such damages as must necessarily be supposed to flow from the conversion, is the true measure. Such, for instance, as the work and labor of negroes; interest on the value of dead property.’ Buford v. Fannen, 1 Bay, 2d ed. 273; Harley v. Platts, 6 Rich. 318 ; Kid v. Mitchell, 1 Nott & McCord, 334.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Vance v. W. A. Vandercook Co.