Coster v. Tide Water Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Every right of action for which debt has been held to be an ‘appropriate remedy’ is not an action on the contract”
• “The general distinguishing features of the action of debt are: (1) That it lies only for the recovery of a sum certain, or readily reducible to a certainty from fixed data or agreement, or by operation of law; (2) that it lies on an obligation that is payable in money only.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).