Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moribund Kansas City real-estate firm called McCoy Land Co. sued as a taxpayer to prevent sale of bonds for a new Jackson County courthouse site on Oak Street. President of McCoy Land Co. was Lawyer William C. Scarritt of the prominent firm of Scarritt, Jones & North. Although a lower court ruled the McCoy suit had no merit, Lawyer Scarritt threatened an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. Fearing further delay would cause the selection of another courthouse site, property owners of the proposed site on Oak Street hired Lawyer Henry Spotswood Conrad, agreed...
Last week the Missouri Supreme Court declared Lawyer Conrad, 62, guilty of professional misconduct, suspended him from the practice of law for four months because he had accepted a fee not only from his property-owning clients but also from McCoy Land Co. He asked for and got, the Supreme Court found, $5,000 from McCoy Land Co. not mentioned in the contract. Widely known for his oratorical abilities, Lawyer Conrad long has had a large Kansas City real-estate practice. The Missouri Bar Committee's discovery of McCoy's $5,000 fee to Lawyer Conrad resulted from...
...Lawyer Delson searched the New York City records farther back to September 1906 he would have found that Mable McCoy Irvin and Dr. E. E. Moore made an attempt to prove that New York State had a law that would admit of a trial marriage. The ceremony only required two witnesses and notary. We announced ourselves husband and wife. Notary affixed his seal and turned papers over to us. We consulted with friends and the recorder in the city of New York and they all said if this paper was filed at end of six months the marriage was legal...
Adapted by Kubec Glasmon (Public Enemy), Horace McCoy and the New York Herald Tribune's onetime crack crime reporter, Joel Sayre, Parole is unlikely to affect the U. S. penal system but it should not disappoint cinemaddicts who like rapid-fire entertainment. Typical shot: Noah Beery Jr., no gorilla-faced "heavy" like his father but a boy-scout type juvenile, receiving a bullet in the back...
...Norman Gillmor Long, 32, climbed to the cab on the girder, clung precariously to a ladder. Asked John McCoy: "Is my arm gone, Doc?" Dr. Long: "We'll see. Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled...