Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is not primarily a trial of fact but of intent. And at law Intent is notoriously difficult to prove...
...Fixel. His ruling entitled her to sue for a widow's share in the Erlanger estate. Said he in a 500-page decision: "The real picture [of the evidence] presents a union of two sympathetic persons, for a time illicit but not because of a lack of matrimonial intent; a decade of mutual fidelity unstained by even a suggestion of difference or inconsistency; a blending of two lives such as are lived by the average husband and wife faithfully devoted to each other. . . . The relationship of husband and wife was consummated and confirmed by their subsequent cohabitation, acknowledgment, habit...
...that the evil day might be deferred by luring the Macon to Lakehurst for inspection by Congressional committeemen. It might then be many weeks before summer thunderstorms over the Southwest would permit the Macon to cross the continent. However, canny Captain Alger Herman Dresel of the Macon was equally intent on getting his ship direct from Akron to the Pacific without delay...
There was a time when Henry Ford was apparently intent on doing every kind of business incidental to the manufacture of automobiles. He provided himself with his own steel mills, his own glass works, his own credit corporation for financing retail sales, even his own railroad (the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton)-all the elements of a great vertical combination, except that for the most part they were, not combined, but erected. More recently he has apparently reversed his intent. As early as 1929 he disposed of his railroad. Last week he was actively dickering for the sale of his retail...
...Steuer's latest cause celebre turns on a simple question of bona fides. Did Elizabeth Rend Mitchell pay for the National City stock with her own money without thought of reselling it to her defendant husband? Nothing is harder to prove or disprove than "intent" and against her husband Mrs. Mitchell cannot be forced to testify. If despite Max Steuer the Government proves that the sale was not in good faith, handsome, steel-haired Charles Edwin Mitchell may be fined $10,000, clapped in jail for five years. Two good reasons for hiring Lawyer Steuer were 1) there would...