Word: countersuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hiram Walker distillers got an injunction to stop him from selling it.* Webb filed a countersuit charging that the state's fair-trade law was unconstitutional. (During litigation Webb stopped retailing liquor, is uncertain now about starting up again...
Kathleen asked for an annulment, an accounting of $116,327 which she said was her share of a joint bank account, $500 weekly alimony, $10,000 counsel fees. Artie answered right back with 28 pages of tart countersuit. Kathleen, he charged, had refused to bear children ("Children have always enslaved women") and had even suggested an operation which, as the N.Y. Daily News gleefully phrased it, would have made him "forever sterile." Artie, who is quoted by Kathleen's lawyer as stating that "any woman who has enough money and still expects her husband to support her is nothing...
Cavendish-Bentinck went right on seeing Poles of all shades, of opinion. The London Daily Worker opened the attack on another front, "discovering" that Cavendish-Bentinck had been separated from his American wife for seven years. He had filed suit for divorce in 1945; his wife filed a countersuit shortly after. The contents of neither complaint have ever been made public in Britain. A Warsaw paper, Express Wieczorny, took up the Daily Worker's cry under a headline: "One Wife and Five Mistresses," asserting that Cavendish-Bentinck had "five women, each in a different country." Next, the Polish Government...
Bill Mauldin, cartoonist of G.I. Joe (and Willie), who has sued his wife for divorce, charging adultery, drew a countersuit from her: that he had threatened to make off with Son Bruce, two. She asked a Los Angeles court to restrain him, also asked for $710 a month out of his estimated $200,000 income...
...Take one good shot and end my misery"). When a candid photo of her with Benny and his sister was shown in court and Benny was asked to point out which were his arms, Benny candidly couldn't. When subpoena-shy Yvette Colbert went west, Hannah's countersuit went west too. Both sides admitted there was nothing more to tell. Next move was the referee...