Word: torts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cases were received in the office for advice and of this number, 15 were taken to court, 14 of which were won, the fifteenth being settled outside of court. Cases were brought by all classes of people of all nationalities and involved questions in contracts, domestic relations, real estate, tort claims, naturalization, and the drawing up of wills. Actual money was recovered or saved for clients, in settlements not including separate support cases and the like, to the amount of $1,100. An average of ten cases a week were handled last year...
...January number of the Harvard Law Review contains the following articles: "Releases and Covenants not to Sue Joint, or Joint and Several Debtors," by Professor Samuel Williston '82, of the Law School; "Legal Cause in Actions of Tort, II," by Professor Jeremiah Smith '56, of the Law School; "Should the Law Teacher Practice Law?", by A. M. Kales '96, with a note by Dean E. R. Thayer '88, of the Law School...