Pringle v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 1 state decisions

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1. ““ . . . Pomeroy, in his work on Remedies and Remedial Rights (paragraph 76), says: ‘The new system not only permits, but encourages, such a union and combination; for one of its elementary notions is that all the possible disputes or controversies arising out of or connected with the same subject-matter or transaction should be settled in a single judicial action.’ In paragraph 77 he gives a classification of the combinations that may be made. The possible modes or forms of the union or combination by the plaintiff of legal and equitable primary rights and remedies in one suit are the following: (1) Both a legal and equitable cause of action may be alleged, and both a legal and equitable remedy obtained; (2) both legal and equitable causes of action may be alleged, and the single remedy obtained may be legal or equitable; (3) upon an equitable cause of action — that is, an equitable primary right alleged to have been invaded — a legal remedy may be obtained; (4) upon a legal cause of action — that is, a legal primary right alleged to have been invaded— an equitable remedy may be obtained; and (5) in an action purely legal — that is, where the primary rights asserted to have been invaded and the remedy demanded are both legal — the plaintiff may invoke an equitable right or title in aid of his contention, and obtain his remedy by its means.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. National Surety Co. v. Conway