Boston Better Business Machine Co. v. Board of Assessors

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “[t]he principle that every injury legally imports damage, was decisively settled, in the case of Ashby v. White,” and collecting English and American decisions
• nominal damages awarded for diversion of watercourse after finding that plaintiff did not have to prove actual damage
• nominal damages awarded for diversion of watercourse after finding that plaintiff did not have to prove actual damage
• nominal damages awarded for diversion of watercourse after finding that plaintiff did not have to prove actual damage
• “An injury is a wrong; and for the redress of every wrong there is a remedy; a wrong is a violation of one’s right, and for the vindication of every right there is a [J-83-2018] - 10 remedy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).