Turner v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• “To answer the contention that the court usurped the jury’s function, resort must be had to the appropriate rules of the common law at the time our first constitution was adopted”
• plaintiffs acceptance of the trial court’s order of remittitur precluded appellate review notwithstanding the plaintiffs reservation of the right to appeal the trial court’s failure to enter judgment for the amount of the jury verdict
• While holding practice of remittitur constitutional, the Court opined that one of the primary reasons therefor was that “[t]he plaintiff is not obliged to remit. He has the option of accepting the alternative and trying the case again.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).