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...enemy. One of the oldest enemies is U. S. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings. Mr. Cummings' enmity dates to the early 19203 when he was practicing law in Stamford. Conn. At that time he took a legal trouncing in a suit against Alcoa. Later his law firm represented Baush Machine Too! Co. in its prolonged efforts to recover from Alcoa $9,000,000 in triple damages for as an impressive a list of unfair trade practices as ever brightened a docket. In the end the famed Baush case was settled out of court, but meantime Mr. Cummings had become...
...industry, which turned into a seven-year Alcoa probe. At the request of the Senate in 1926 the Department of Justice investigated to see if the company was living up to the 1912 consent decree. Alcoa affairs have also been thoroughly aired in private suits such as that of Baush Machine Tool. Yet Alcoa has always received a clean bill of health...
Last March after sitting for nine weeks listening to 1,000,000 words of testimony, puzzling over 600 exhibits, a Hartford, Conn, jury gave Baush the verdict, awarding $956,000 damages, which U. S. District Judge Harland Bradley Howe promptly and punitively tripled (TIME, March 16). Baush was also allowed $300,000 for attorney...
This time Aluminum appealed. Last week in Manhattan, in a 2-to-1 decision, the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the Baush verdict, sent the case back, with a stinging rebuke to Judge Howe, for its third trial...
...Baush counsel was Cummings & Lockivood, the Connecticut law firm of Attorney General Cummings, who once lost another Aluminum case, has never forgotten...