Penhallow v. Doane's Administrators

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that where a vessel that was the subject of restitution had already been sold and removed from the venue, specific restitution was “impracticable”
• reversing a restitution award in admiralty that ordered joint damages in excess of what each defend- ant received
• “Hard very hard, but such is the law”
• “Hard very hard, but such is the law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).