Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...jury in the Bowdoin College hazing case, tried at Portland, Me., having returned a verdict of $2,500 for the plaintiff, the defendants take exceptions...
Justice Fry of London yesterday gave judgment in the case of the Union Telephone Company vs. Walker, an action to restrain the defendant from infringing on the patent for Edison's transmitter and Bell's receiver. The former point was decided against, and the latter in favor of, the plaintiff...
...action of the plaintiff in the case of Strout versus the seven Bowdoin students, now on trial before the Supreme Court of Maine, seems perfectly justifiable and commendable. On the 25th of October last young Strout stood at the window of his room on the second floor of Appleton Hall. A piece of coal weighing one pound was thrown through the glass, striking him in the eye, causing a serious wound. A few minutes after the defendants entered the room on a hazing expedition, for the purpose of seizing some cider supposed to be in the possession of the freshman...
Hawley, through his attorneys, filed the necessary papers asking for an alternative mandate requiring the faculty to show cause why he was denied admission, or else permit him to enter college. This complaint was afterward amended, wherein the plaintiff alleged that he was excluded upon the ground of his refusal to take the obligation prescribed. The faculty based their defence on the claim that the board of trustees and the faculty had the right to enact and enforce rules, prohibiting the existence of Greek-letter societies in their college. The plaintiff claimed that the rule in question was one that...