Frame v. Ashley’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

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1. ““The general rule is that a statutory obligation to pay damages which the common law does not give is ‘a liability created by statute,’ where the damages awarded are limited to compensation—limited to an amount which merely makes the injured person whole. The general rule also is that a statutory obligation to pay an amount beyond compensation, to submit to more than the simple redress of the wrong done, to pay not merely in respect of the deserts of the injured person but as punishment for the wrong done, is a penalty. Tested by these simple rules the case is easy of solution. The statutory obligation in question is a liability created by statute, because it is wholly limited to compensation. There is nothing of a penal character in the terms of the law which imposes the obligation. On the contrary, the statute and other enactments in pari materia clearly show that it was intended to be compensatory and not penal.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 36 Wash. 2d 685 - Heitfeld v. Benevolent & Protective Order of Keglers