Wilmington Trust Co. v. Clark

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a “duty giving rise to [a] tort cause of action must be independent of the contractual obligation”
• assuming this principle, which was first announced in Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy, 4 Wall. 535, 550, 18 L.Ed. 403, 408 (1867), would be adopted in Delaware
• assuming this principle, which was first announced in Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy, 4 Wall. 535, 550, 18 L.Ed. 403, 408 (1867), would be adopted in Delaware
• explaining in the context of an intentional tort action that “in the absence of a legal duty owed by the defendant to the plaintiff . . . there can be no recovery in tort”
• refusing to apply the Maryland Criminal Code to a separation agreement
• a person who is a party to the broken contract cannot be liable for contractual interference

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).