 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 796 pages
...recover against a third person who had maliciously procured his discharge. It was said by the court: "Merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact; still, if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 896 pages
...is that the act of the defendants which is complained of must be an act wrongful in law and in fact. Merely to persuade a person to break his contract, may not be wrongful in law or fact as in the second case put by Coleridge, J. ('). But if the persuasion be used... | |
 | Law - 1913 - 1174 pages
...others, to full freedom in disposing of his own labor or capital according to his own will, and any one who invades that right without lawful cause or justification...malevolent purpose of injuring another, or if one for unlawful motives interferes with another's trade either by fraud or misrepresentation, or by molesting... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1132 pages
...or an act illegal on his part, or an act otherwise Imposing an actionable liability on him. * « » Merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful In law or fact, * * * but, If the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1156 pages
...the particular case does produce such an Injury, an action on the case will lie." And again he said: "Merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact, as In the second case put by Coleridge, CJ But if the persuasion be used for... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1032 pages
...cases, the law would, in some instances, refuse to recognize what manifestly is true in fact; .... that merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact, still, if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the... | |
 | William Packer Prentice - Police power - 1894 - 578 pages
...visited upon over zealous and troublesome emissaries of strikers' organizations. borne concurring): "That merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact, * * * but if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the... | |
 | Robert Campbell - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1894 - 868 pages
...is that the act of the defendants which is complained of must be an act wrongful in law and in fact. Merely to persuade a person to break his contract, may not be wrongful in law or fact, as in the second case put by COLERIDGE, J., 2 E. & B., at p. 247. But if the... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - Torts - 1895 - 628 pages
...of another." In Bowen v. Hall, 6 QB Div. 338, it was said by Brett, J. (Lord Selborne concurring), that " merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact : . . . but if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1050 pages
...by him, or an act illegal on his part, or an act otherwise imposing an actionable liability on him Merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact, .... but if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the... | |
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Merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact. But, if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff, or of benefiting the defendant at the expense of the plaintiff, it is a malicious... 
