Williams v. Hedricks

It is contended in this caso, for the plaintiff, that this suit can not be maintained because the charge in the declaration amounts to felony, and the civil injury, if any, is merged in the public wrong. Upon this subject the English authorities are contradictory; this court hath, therefore, taken it up on the principles of reason, justice, and policy. Reason and justice unite in declaring that for every wrong, there should be a remedy; for every injury, there should be a compensation; and in this case there evidently appears to have been a violent outrageous injury, from the consequences of…