Smith v. Royal Manufacturing Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating, in pre-amendment case, that “[w]here a fixed sum is agreed upon as liquidated damages for one of several breaches of varying degree, it is to be inferred that a penalty was intended”
• “Where 15 a fixed sum is agreed upon as liquidated damages for one of 16 several breaches of varying degree, it is to be inferred that a 17 penalty was intended.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).