Foster v. Quigley

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prejudgment interest for damages to the person “is not of the substance of the right of action but exclusively an incident attached thereto by legislative fiat after such right has been adjudicated”
• holding that prejudgment interest for damages to the person \is not of the substance of the right of action but exclusively an incident attached thereto by legislative fiat after such right has been adjudicated\
• retrospective application of statute providing for judgment interest “from the date of the writ” permissible as not of the substance of the cause of action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).