Word: prossers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey-haired Harvard law professor asked his class: "Does anyone have a $5 bill?" When a student waved one aloft, Professor William Lloyd Prosser beckoned him down front, transferred the money with a flourish to his own wallet. Then he folded his hands across his belly and smiled broadly at Second-Year Student William Poindexter. The class snickered. Poindexter blushed...
...Said Prosser: "Now, Mr. Poindexter, what are your rights?" Poindexter and his classmates, pondering legal recourses for the rest of the hour, disagreed. Remarked the professor: "Since we have not reached a conclusion, I expect I'd better keep the $5." But, after class, Student Poindexter made up his mind...
Judge Frederic A. Crafts, of the District Court of Waltham, decided the case in the Third District Court of Ames on the grounds that there had been no breach of contract in Prosser's dexterous classroom extraction of five dollars from Poindexter on February...
Admitting that a contract had been implied, he stated that the demonstration of negotiability was not necessarily completed when Prosser received the summons...
...Prosser treated Mr. and Mrs. Poindexter, the Judge and both counsels to a steak dinner during court recess...