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...first semi-final case, on November 21, was held in the center lecture room of Langdell Hall between the Marshall club and the George Gray club. W. M. V. Hoffmann 3L and E. C. Johnson 2d 3L of the George Gray Club acted as attorneys for the plaintiff in the case assigned, while R. S. Foster 3L, and C. W. Partridge 3L acted as counsel for the defendant. The case was decided in favor of the George Gray club by Judges J. A. Lowell '91 Federal District Judge, J. M. Morton Jr. '91, Federal District Judge, and J. G. Palfrey...
...California, the same state where the Chaplin case comes up. In the Weinstock case, the defendant resorted to the erection of a duplicate building alongside the mercantile house of a successful trader. It was built so similarly as to deceive the public. Injunctive relief was granted to the plaintiff and the court commanded the defendant to distinguish his building from that in which the plaintiff was carrying on his business, so as to sufficiently indicate to the public that it was separate...
...extended to a red-blooded sportsman.'" Manuel Herrick, former Representative from Oklahoma: " I entered suit in the Supreme Court of D. C. for breach of promise against Miss Ethelyn Chrane, a young woman who was at one time my secretary. I asked $50,000 damages, alleging that the plaintiff by refusing to keep a promise to marry me had 'brought me into ridicule and contempt' and had prevented me from paying court to 'other eligible and marriageable ladies.' " Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former Minister to the Netherlands: "A North Carolina divine, reading a sermon...
...Supreme Court of Alabama recently imposed a liability on the Western Union Telegraph Company under rather unusual circumstances. The father of the plaintiff, whose name was Swindle, died, and a friend telegraphed to Swindle: " Your father is dead. Come at once." The telegram was not delivered promptly and the plaintiff was unable to make the proper arrangements for his father's burial. The jury allowed him $500 damages and their verdict was upheld on appeal...
...preceded the decisions of the court of last resort, as the questions decided had never come up previously in any state. Lower tribunals in New York were unanimously of opinion that an unrecognized government has no status of any kind, and thus no standing in court as a party plaintiff. But an appellate unit decided that the Soviet government, being a de facto government, could be sued. This decision left all de facto governments in a precarious position in America, their liabilities were enforceable, but their assets were not collectible here. The result was immediately apparent. An attachment was levied...