Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kindness" to win the man she loves. With such dynamic energy does Miss Moore zoom through three acts of vaudeville farce that the entire encumbrance is drawn in by the suction and swept along to success. She impersonates a fictitious partner of the penniless lawyer she adores, wins a lawsuit for him in spite of himself, and wins him, too, after an impassioned speech set in the middle of a clownish court room scene. The audience laughed constantly-mostly on account of Miss Moore. She worked hard...
...Longest Lawsuit...
...year 1327 the four French communes of Roquebillière, Belvédère, Saint-Martin-Vesubie and Lautosque became involved in a lawsuit over 16,000 acres of pasturage which their boundaries mutually adjoined. For 600 years the suit has prospered-while the Royal Houses of Valois, Orleans, Bourbon and Bonaparte rose, flourished and declined. Whole families of lawyers and litigants have been founded and have passed away. Recently the Court of Appeals at Aix rendered what it is hoped will be a final decision. By order of the Court the pasturage in question will be divided among...
Paris is soon to witness a sensational lawsuit. The cause of the suit to be sure, is only a quarrel between two dressmaking houses and would not have lured a single Frenchman from his escargots (snails) had not the plaintiff engaged ex-Premier ex-President Alexandre Millerand as counsel and had not the defense engaged ex-President ex-Premier Raymond Poincar...
...this stage, political interference came, based upon fears of a "Food Trust" as well as complaints by small carriers through the country from whom the packers bought. A long lawsuit followed, during which the packers proceeded to get out of the grocery business except for the sale of meat products. Now the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has decreed that the packers can return to their original practises. But the packers are no longer interested...