Word: plaintiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plenty of other candidates for popular martyrdom popped up to bid for Gentleman Farmer Chandler's potatoes. Declared Manhattan Jeweler Norman C. Norman, a plaintiff in the Supreme Court gold-clause cases: "I am particularly anxious to serve time in the penitentiary...
Shanferoke contended that New Rochelle Coal & Lumber is solvent and therefore had no right to apply for reorganization under Section 77b. If solvent corporations could seek reorganization under the Bankruptcy Law, said the plaintiff, creditors would be deprived of their property (i. e. claims) in violation of the ''due process" clause of the Fifth Amendment. With this argument the Circuit Court did not agree. Ruling that no violation of the Fifth Amendment was involved, it declared, in effect, that a solvent corporation may apply for permission to reorganize under Section 77b. Last week Shanferoke Coal had 14 days left...
...wherein Boles, dressed in a magician's garb complete with plug hat, wig, barbershop mustache and false nose (see cut), does tricks for the inmates. Silliest sequence: Miss Muir being sent to jail for contempt when, quizzed by Boles in a divorce action for which he is the plaintiff's attorney, she refuses to divulge to whom Boles's wife's lover was sending daily orchids...
...solemnly to ponder whether, to a follower of Mary Baker Eddy, injuries and pains could be real (TIME, June 25). This spring a higher court ordered a new trial, holding that Justice Bonynge had erred in letting Christian Science "creep into the trial in a manner inviting, to the plaintiff's prejudice, personal issues between her and the jury." Last week in Mineola a new jury awarded Mrs. Kirk $750 in real money for the real injuries she suffered from George Cisler's real automobile...
...complained Mr. Seubert, was merely the letters "S" and "O" spelled out. Standard of Indiana had been marketing "SO" oil & gas for 40 years. Therefore Standard of New Jersey, in advertising "Esso," was blatantly appropriating "without expense, fraudulently and unfairly, the goodwill, reputation, celebrity and public confidence which the plaintiff has built up." Mr. Seubert asked the court to enjoin the intruder from selling "Esso" products in any of the 14 states served by Standard of Indiana...