Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election Nov. 8. Through his onetime law partner and a nominal plaintiff, Mayor McKee went to court to void the Board's order, hold his job until Jan. 1, 1934. At stake was the question of whether the Mayor's office was legally vacant. Mayor McKee said he wanted to save the city the expense of a special election...
...unfair competition, coercion, monopoly. Kellogg claimed that patents on the shredded wheat process have long since expired, that it has been kept out of competition by efforts of N. B. C. "to coerce & intimidate the trade by threats of suits, ... by employing a former general sales manager of the plaintiff company, and by reviving its unfair, slanderous, threatening and coercive attacks upon the plaintiff, its products and its dealers." Kellogg Co. asks $3,000,000 damages...
...broken his promise to the airship operators, that his contract to send messages was morally void. Last week the New York State Court of Appeals upheld N. A. N. A.'s defense, passed lightly over the agency's part in the alleged "fraud & deceit" thus: "The plaintiff's complaint that the defendant treated him as he had treated others falls upon deaf ears; the law is silent; it has nothing...
...Providence, because Barber Philip Reitano shaved off Francesco Mastrostefano's moustache, which had luxuriated "continuously and undipped for . . . more than 47 years," Francesco Mastrostefano sued Barber Reitano for $2,000. He alleged that Barber Reitano, "well knowing that said plaintiff did not wish the end of his said moustache cut. and wilfully and maliciously intending to cause said plaintiff disfigurement, humiliation, ridicule and mental and physical suffering and discomfort, did then and there with force and arms assault said plaintiff and laid hold of him and, placing a towel over his eyes to blindfold him, did . . . cut off both...
...hypothetical case which has been under preparation by the two clubs since the last week in November deals primarily with the law of agency and equity. The Scott Club will present the arguments for the plaintiff while the Lowell Club speakers will talk from the defendants' brief. The case involves a newspaper editor who was sued for libel, won the trial, and proceeded to demand recompensation from its owner for the costs of defending the newspaper...