Word: plaintiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When any final judgment recovered against the United States or other claim duly allowed by legal authority shall be presented to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment and the plaintiff or claimant therein shall be indebted to the United States in any manner, it shall be the duty of the Secretary to withhold payment of an amount of such judgment or claim equal to the debt thus due to the United States. . . - Act of March...
...appearances in a Broadway vaudeville house-claimed he had paid his fight receipts to his manager Louis Soresi for a farm in Italy. Said the Court: "Reluctantly does the court deny this application; for good reason exists to suspect the honesty and sincerity of the transfer. . . . Unfortunately for; the plaintiff, astute advice has kept the defendant, Camera, and his mentor, Soresi, within...
...mind an entertaining bit og testimony given in a lawsuit in which my father was counsel for one of the litigants. The case involved an automobile collision. Immediately before the collision, one of the automobiles had struck a cow; and during the trial it became important for the plaintiff to bring out the speed with which this cow was moving. It has been several years since I read the transcript of the testimony, but as I now remember it, this part of the testimony was, in effect, as follows...
CIRCUIT COURT 1-Air. Justice Joseph W. Cox presiding; R. E. Lee Goff, clerk. No. 79326. Frank E. Bonner vs. Washington Times Co.; trial resumed and cause given to jury; verdict for plaintiff for $45,000. Attys., John W. Guider, Edmund L. Jones, Frank J. Hogan-William E. Leahy, Wilton J. Lambert, Rudolph H. Yeatman...
...five months ago Hearst's American was ordered to pay $50,000 to Bonner, $4,200 to Griffith, the Washington newspapers loyally obeyed their unwritten law to ignore libel suits involving each other. In one particular, however, Hearst's Washington Herald broke the rule. When five of Plaintiff Griffith's nine counts were dismissed (he collected $250 each on the other four), the Herald blithely headlined...