Cox v. Geary

How courts have described this case

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

• dismissing legal malpractice action for failure to allege damage, where state had already compensated defendant for his wrongful incarceration, because “[i]t is a generally recognized principle that there can be only one recovery of damages for a single wrong or injury”
• the plaintiff suffers a single, indivisible injury where he fails to distinguish between damages arising from separate and independent acts of negligence
• “It is a generally recognized principle that there can be only one recovery of damages for a single wrong or injury.”
• wrongfully incarcerated prisoner suffered only one “single, indivisible injury” that undergirded both a statutorily created right of action against the Commonwealth and a separate legal malpractice claim against his own attorney
• wrongfully incarcerated prisoner suffered only one “single, indivisible injury” that undergirded both a statutorily created right of action against the Commonwealth and a separate legal malpractice claim against his own attorney
• no difference between the injury or the damages caused by the negligence of the Commonwealth and the injury or damages suffered by Cox as a result of his attorneys’ breach of contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).