Commonwealth v. Tejada, R.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding private settlement of liquidated damages claims under Alaska Wage and Hour Act void as against public policy
• upholding a covenant not to sue between a railroad company and an express messenger even though the express messenger used railroads to provide an essential public service
• “The right of private contract is no small part of the liberty of the citizen.”
• “[T]he usual and most important function of courts of justice is rather to maintain and enforce contracts, than to enable parties thereto to escape from their obligation on the pretext of public policy....”
• “the usual and most important function of courts of justice is rather to maintain and enforce contracts than to enable parties thereto to escape from their obligation on the pretext of public policy”
• “[T]he right of private contract is no small part of the liberty of the citizen, and ... the usual and most important function of courts of justice is rather to maintain and enforce contracts than to enable parties thereto to escape from their obligation....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).