Ed Peters Jewelry Co. v. C & J Jewelry Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• relying on dictionary definition of “fraud” to determine whether con- duct was “fraud” for the purpose of Rhode Island’s common law successor liability
• “Actions for breach of fiduciary duty, historically speaking, are almost uniformly actions ‘in equity’—carrying with them no right to trial by jury.” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• actions to determine successorship liability are equitable in nature

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).