Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Archbishop Coadjutor Georges Gauthier,* the corporation of the archdiocese, and St. Etienne parish, for $261,939.83 in notes of the parish, which the plaintiffs, and 75 other noteholders, claimed had been guaranteed by the first two defendants. According to canon law, however, an ecclesiastic or a religious corporation may not be sued without his or its permission. Although the plaintiffs said they asked for permission five times, they received no reply. They went ahead and sued anyway. Then the Consistorial Congregation announced that by their act they had incurred excommunication. Plaintiff Bordeleau, alarmed, ducked out of the suit last January...
...White Plains, N. Y., Mr. & Mrs. Carroll Timberman served on the same jury. Balloting for the verdict, Mr. Timberman voted for the defendant, his wife for the plaintiff. Final verdict: for the defendant. Boasted Mr. Timberman: "She soon came around to my way of thinking...
...short time ago... Casa Loma's new album for Decca is supposed to be excellent, with Louis setting in as guest trumpet player on "Rockin" Chair"... Court decisions get more complicated with one judge in New Orleans recently handing down a decision to the effect that "the aforesaid plaintiff does have a solid band in the true New Orleans style, and should therefore he paid his wages...
...originated the goat gland operation." It was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, famed Kansas "rejuvenator", who for the fourth time was suing Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's publication Hygeia. Dr. Fishbein, who at the moment had his back turned on Plaintiff Brinkley, appeared unconcerned over Brinkley's demand for $250,000. Last year in Hygeia Dr. Fishbein described Brinkley as a "quack" and a "charlatan". Dr. Brinkley claimed that these statements were libelous, that as a result his annual income fell from...
Said gigantic Plaintiff Wadlow: "The article . . . made...