American State Reports, Vol. 80
Author | : Abraham Clark Freeman |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 1054 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780265501771 |
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Excerpt from American State Reports, Vol. 80: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" And the "American Reports," Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States Every agreement between two or more persons to accomplish a criminal or unlawful Object, or a lawful Object by criminal or unlawful means, is an unlawful conspiracy, and any person whose rights are injured by acts done in furtherance Of such conspiracy has his action at law for redress in damages. If an unlawful combination exist, it is none the less unlaw ful because existing under a self-imposed constitution and gov erned by by-laws, and because it conducts its operations in a public or semi-public way, asserting the right, in pursuit of its purposes, to interfere with individual liberty and with the pub lic interests. In a proceeding for damages for wrongdoing by such a combination to the special injury Of an individual, the constitution and by-laws of the association, and protests of its members of innocence Of bad intent, and of adherence to the obligations Of their association, however innocent may be its name, to prevent incurring its penalties, will constitute no pro tection whatever, as regards compensatory damages to a person specially injured by overt acts of its members in pursuit of the purposes of the conspiracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.