Word: plaintiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representing the Choate club were William Ernest Lucas 3L and Edward Allen Haight 3L who acted as solicitors for the Plaintiff in a difficult and involved case against Harry William Lightstone 3L and Franklin Pierce Hays, Jr. 3L, counsels for the defendant, representing the Lowell Club. Hon. James M. Morton, United States Circuit Judge for the first circuit, presided. Hon. Peter Woodbury, Justice of the Supreme court of New Hampshire, and Hon. Sidney St. F. Thaxter, Justice of the supreme judicial court of Maine, were associate judges...
Brief for the Plaintiff. Coram: Powell...
...plaintiff, a graduate of Harvard College and a resident of New York, bought two tickets for the Yale game, in the section of the Harvard Stadium especially reserved for his class. Thinking later that he would be unable to use them; in reply to a request of his classmate Zilch, he said he would sell them both for $25.00, an increase of $15.00. Zilch informed the Harvard Athletic Association by telegram, as follows...
...Plaintiff finally did go to the game, using his tickets. An usher appeared in the second period and asked for the tickets which the plaintiff gave him. The usher then asked him to leave the game, and on the plaintiff's refusal and an unsuccessful attempt by the usher to put him out, a police officer did so. Mrs. Saltoncabot followed. Outside the Stadium, but inside Soldiers Field, the head usher, Caroll Cetchell, was standing. He hissed to the plaintiff and his wife, gesturing with his thumb toward the gate...
...Plaintiff then left and brought this action against defendant, who is president of the Harvard Athletic Association. He seeks to recover damages from the defendant for the breach of contract involved in his ejection from the Stadium, for the assault and false imprisonment therein involved, and for the slanderous words of the head usher. The plaintiff submits that his tickets were more than a mere license, that they were at least evidence of a contract for the enjoyment of a football game, if not an actual contract, and that by preventing him from seeing the game the defendant broke...