Jaeger v. Harr

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that, under Tennessee law, a party “is entitled to the greatest amount recoverable under any single theory pled”
• remanding for a new trial on only damages because the verdict form “failed to ask the jury what the specific damages were for that claim.”
• “Election of remedies is ‘the legal version of the idea that a plaintiff may not have his cake and eat it too.’ D. Dobbs, Remedies § 1.5 at 14 (1973). The doctrine is remedial in nature and does no more than prevent double recovery. Id. at 16.”
• “Election of remedies is ‘the legal version of the idea that a plaintiff may not have his cake and eat it too.’ D. Dobbs, Remedies § 1.5 at 14 (1973). The doctrine is remedial in nature and does no more than prevent double recovery. Id. at 16.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).