Chavin v. H. H. Rosin & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is, of course, axiomatic that Equity has no jurisdiction over a controversy for which there is a complete and adequate remedy at law.”
• “The object of specific performance is to enforce a plaintiff’s equitable rights, and to compel a defendant to specifically perform his equitable obligations.”
• “The right to compel the specific performance of a contract is a purely equitable remedy, and is given in substitution of the legal remedy of compensation when it is inadequate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).