How cited: Bristol-Myers Co. v. Lit Bros., Inc. · Go Syfert

Bristol-Myers Co. v. Lit Bros., Inc. (1939)

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Quote Authority · Pa. Commw. Ct. · signal: see
See Bristol-Myers Co. v. Lit Bros., Inc., 336 Pa. 81 , 6 A.2d 843, 848 (1939) (“[T]he court is not bound to a strictness at once harsh and pedantic in the application of statutes ...
“[T]he court is not bound to a strictness at once harsh and pedantic in the application of statutes ... Where there are irregularities of very slight consequence, it does not intend that the infliction of penalties should be inflexibly severe.”
Rule Authority · Pa.
As this Court said in Reynolds v. Boland, 202 Pa. 642, 647 , 52 A. 19 : “Equity springs from conscience and is administered through it.” The Supreme Court of the United States expressed the same principle in Deweese v. Reinhard, 165 U.S. 386 , as follows: “A court of equity acts only when and as conscience commands.” ’; Bristol-Myers Company v. Lit Brothers, Inc., 336 Pa. 81, 92 (1939).
Cited · Pa. · signal: see
See Bristol-Myers Company v. Lit Brothers, Inc. 336 Pa. 81 , 6 A. 2d 843 ; Lentheric, Inc. v. F. W.
Cited · pactcomplphilad · signal: see
Discussion The fair trade acts which have been adopted by 43 States within the last few years have been the subject of extensive discussion both in legal decisions and economic treatises: See Old Dearborn Distributing Co. v. Seagram Distillers Corp., 299 U. S. 183 , Bristol-Myers Co. v. Lit Brothers, Inc., 336 Pa. 81 , Fair Trade Acts by Professor McLaughlin, 86 U. of P. Law Rev. 803, and Zorn & Feldman on Business Under the New Price Laws.