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A jury verdict assessing $2,000 in damages to plaintiff John Byrnes against defendant Frank Hastings was brought in at the mock trial attended by first year law students in Langdell Court Room last night. The proceedings were designed to show the actual workings of a jury trial.
Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, will represent the fictitious plaintiff, John Byrnes, who is suing for mental suffering and economic loss. Richard H. Field, professor of Law, is counsel for the defendant, Frank Hastings. A jury is being selected from the University community--law students excluded.
In this case, Byrnes, a concert singer, was so upset by Hastings' threats to blow auto horns during his recital that he hit sour notes and had to leave the stage. Hastings made the threats because he confused the singer with a Communist entertainer named Joseph Burns. But Hastings claims...
"Damn Slow Running." Then there was Jonathan Daniels' Man of Independence, the biography of Harry Truman which skidded onto the scene last week with a screeching of brakes (TIME, Oct. 2). Ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes, whom the President had characterized, according to the book, as a man...
On the resignation of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, in 1947, the President had an equally succinct report: "He failed miserably as Secretary of State and ran out on me ... when I needed him worst. His 'bad heart' has now left him when he has found that...