Commonwealth v. United Food Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that orders for destruction of property shall only be made “as are appropriate and necessary to abate the nuisance”
• holding that the costs to the Commonwealth of bringing an abatement action may be properly awarded without a jury trial, but that any additional amount awarded punitively is improper without a jury trial
• “In order to fall within the catagory [sic] of legal actions which do not require a jury, the judgment in this case must be free from any solely punitive element”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).