Word: plaintiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenberg made history of a sort by being the first television eyewitness allowed to testify in federal court. But she was of little help last week to Plaintiff Jonas Walvisch in his suit for $75,000 damages: he lost the case...
However it got there, Bacteriologist Marsh didn't think the mouse could do the drink any harm. With the air of a man about to demolish an argument, the plaintiff's lawyer got up to cross-examine. Would you drink it? he asked. Sure, said Witness Marsh calmly. The lawyer handed him Exhibit One. Homer Marsh gulped the liquid down. "Can't get the mouse down," he said apologetically...
Q.E.D. In Washington, D.C., Judge Richmond B. Keech ruled that William Tendrich was entitled to a divorce because his wife allegedly sprinkled Paris green over the dinner table: "The defendant has shown . . . that she has no affection or respect for the plaintiff...
...jury verdict assessing $2,000 in damages to plaintiff John Byrnes against defendant Frank Hastings was brought in at the mock trial attended by first year law students in Langdell Court Room last night. The proceedings were designed to show the actual workings of a jury trial...
Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, will represent the fictitious plaintiff, John Byrnes, who is suing for mental suffering and economic loss. Richard H. Field, professor of Law, is counsel for the defendant, Frank Hastings. A jury is being selected from the University community--law students excluded...