Cleveland Bar Ass'n v. Dixon

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that while “parties to a contract may agree in advance to a sum certain which shall be forfeited as liquidated damages for breach of the contract,” if that “agreement is for a penalty it is void”
• “Action by Beatrice I. Crawford and others against Myron Davy and others, trading as River Terrace Company .... ”
• “damages stipulated in advance should not be more than those which at the time of execution of the contract can be reasonably expected from its future breach----”
• described in Armfield as “[t]he seminal case [in this jurisdiction] in determining whether a liquidated damages clause constitutes a penalty” and hence is void and unenforceable
• “damages stipulated in advance should not be more than those which at the time of execution of the contract can be reasonably expected from its future breach . . . . ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).