Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plaint. Near Philadelphia, a neighbor of Mrs. Bobbie Ernst sued to subdue her marimba playing, charged she had played it "for more than five years . . . almost daily, approximately six hours a day and until late hours of the night . . . plays Jingle Bells whenever she observes the plaintiff, and Anchors Aweigh when a certain naval officer is in sight...
...Devil v. Jabez Stone. Presiding judge is the renowned Justice Hathorne, who hanged the Salem witches. On the jury sit twelve famed American dastards-among them Traitor Benedict Arnold; Simon Girty, who helped the Indians burn white settlers. The court, straight from Hell, is packed in favor of the plaintiff...
...Plaintiff Hayes had a brutal tale to tell. In June Defendant McCaughey and three others snatched him from his home, trussed him up with wire, hustled him to an empty County Louth farmhouse. There they accused him of squealing I.R.A. secrets to the Government. When he denied this they blindfolded him, bound him to a chair, bashed his face and head with fists and a revolver barrel. Finally Sean McCaughey threatened that if he did not confess in 15 minutes he would be shot. Thereupon Stephen Hayes invented imaginary incidents, was removed to Dublin...
Concerning this story Defendant McCaughey had nothing to say. The court-martial ruled that, although Plaintiff Hayes had an I.R.A. past, he was entitled to live in peace and safety. Defendant McCaughey was sentenced to be shot by a firing squad...
...plaintiff dug up the coffin in which her Wilson Strickland had been buried, took the rotted wood to court, tried to prove that it had come from a Mongomery County pine tree. Most amazing witness was Mrs. Anne Stuart Snow, a Strickland descendant from Lewisville, Ark., who testified that her family's Bible had been destroyed by fire in 1896 when she was eleven years old. She said she recalled 160 pictures and biographies in the Bible, described the photographs in detail, said that Wilson Strickland's picture had been torn out of the lower left-hand corner...