Dorman v. Atmos Energy Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• describing Massachusetts practice by which a second jury trial could be had on appeal
• describing Massachusetts practice by which a second jury trial could be had on appeal
• “[T]he common law here alluded to is not the common law of any individual state, (for it probably differs in all), but it is the common law of England, the grand reservoir of all our jurisprudence”
• “At the time when the constitution was submitted to the people for adoption, one of the most powerful objections urged against it was, that in civil causes it did not secure the trial of facts by a jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).