Illinois Central Railroad v. Crail

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the market value measure “may be discarded 6 and other more accurate means resorted to, if, for special reasons, it is not exact or 7 otherwise not applicable”
• stating “remedies . . . afform only compensation for the injury suffered”
• consignee of coal only allowed wholesale value of coal lost in transit because of ability to replace coal without loss of retail sales
• no rigid rule; market value at best a convenient means of getting at the loss suffered
• “The test of market value is at best but a convenient means of getting at the loss suffered. It may be discarded and other more accurate means resorted to, if, for special reasons, it is not exact or otherwise not applicable.”
• remedies compensate only for injury suffered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).