Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face when Lawyer Mouser, his grey hair disheveled with excitement charged that she had neglected utterly, to establish the paternity of her child while President Harding yet lived. Judge Killits, unexcited, ruled that statements in the book were libelous per se and that "there is nothing left for the plaintiff to prove except the extent of the publication...
...plaintiff, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, was one of the several aeronauts who sprang up in France immediately after the first triumph of the Wrights. Reputedly the sixth man in France to fly, he built an early plane known as the "R. E. P.", is sometimes credited with constructing the first cantilever monoplane (a wing without external bracing). Of recent years he has engaged chiefly in rocket researches, visited the U. S. last winter to address the Interplanetary Society and to seek money for his experiments which, he hopes, will some day result in a flight to the moon (TIME...
Announcement has been made also that the semi-final arguments in the Ames Competition which is handled by the Board will take place in the court room of Langdell Hall on Thursday and Friday, November 19 and 20. The Pound Club, plaintiff, represented by W. L. Broad 3L and L. A. Williams, Jr. 3L., will meet the Scott Club, defendant, represented by T. H. Eliot 3L and F. H. Sloss 3L on Thursday, November 19. L. P. Schoene 3L and J. F. Davis 3L, representing Sayre Club, plaintiff, will meet J. J. Fine 3L and J. B. Messitte 3L representing...
...stage. She stuck to her contention that the father of her grandchild was James Cannon, property man at the old Grove Street Theatre, San Francisco. Garrulous, she insisted on telling how she had shaken President Lincoln's hand in Ford's Theatre, Washington. When the plaintiff's counsel John Taaffe tried to cross examine her she screamed at 84-year-old Superior Judge George H. Buck: "I want protection from this man. Why should he come here and question me like this?" Judge Buck smiled and said, "Take this old lady home...
Submitted the defense: "It appears from the face of the complaint that the plaintiff is a roving reporter, having worked on five different newspapers, having covered East Side courts and having been a ship news reporter. . . . In so far as the alleged libelous matter is not admittedly true, it is submitted that it is not libelous per se, when spoken of a newspaper reporter...