Souza v. Car & General Assurance Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that, to deprive a plaintiff of a common law cause of action, “it is essential that it affirmatively appear that the statutes themselves, either directly or by necessary implication, abrogate such a right”
• “To deprive plaintiff of his common law right of action it is essential that it affirmatively appear that the statutes themselves, either directly or by necessary implication, abrogate such a right.” (emphasis added)
• before plaintiff will be deprived of a common law right of action, it must “affirmatively appear that the statutes themselves, either directly or by necessary implication, abrogate such right”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).