Ellwood v. Mid States Commodities, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• cautioning that, in equity cases, those acting with deceit and having “unclean hands” should not be rewarded
• holding trial court abused its discretion by allowing recovery for uncertain or speculative damages
• noting the doctrine of clean hands may be applied in actions brought in equity
• “The clean hands doctrine stands for the principle that a party may be denied relief in equity based on his inequitable, unfair, dishonest, fraudulent, or deceitful conduct.”
• equitable relief may be denied for unfair, dishonest, fraudulent, or deceitful conduct
• damages resulting from injury to credit reputation must be “proved with reasonable certainty”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).