Word: torts
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...Grisly Package. Belli's most noteworthy contribution to tort-trials is in his use of "demonstrative evidence," i.e., visual aids. He will take his skeleton, named "Elmer," into the courtroom and show the jury by experts' testimony exactly where plaintiff broke a bone, then stalk to his portable blackboard to draw diagrams of the accident scene. Often he chalks figures to justify the damages he is demanding-so much per hour for pain, so much for medical bills, so much in lost wages, etc., etc.-occasionally makes a deliberate mistake in addition, so as to let an alert...
...Tort. In London, attempting to point up the "rather monotonous English style in legal documents," the Law Society's Gazette printed a letter written by an Indian lawyer to a client: "Dear Sir, Unless you pay the rupees within seven days, we shall take such steps as will cause you the utmost damned astonishment...
...Illinois, a defendant who loses a tort suit and does not pay the damages can be jailed if "malice is the gist of the action." And as charged in Theresa's suit, Alma "maliciously" alienated Roy Fergerson's affections. She could thus be jailed at the wronged woman's discretion, and last week she was. Willingly, the first Mrs. Fergerson paid the jail fees for incarcerating the second: $1 admission and $3.50 weekly. "This whole thing is silly," wailed Alma, who can be kept in jail for six months. Snug at home, the former Mrs. Fergerson trilled...
...when Leo [Durocher] the Lip dashes onto the field to claim "Somebody done me wrong!"-or "On me fait tort!"-he is likewise raising the clameur, which is still known on the sport pages and the radio by a vestige of the original phrase: it's a "Hay Rube Bob !"-or a "Rhubarb...
Last week when the waterworks men came to start their digging, Tom was ready for them. As the first shovel bit the dirt, Tom Hugo strode from his house, fell on his knees and cried: "Haro! Haro! Haro! à l'aide, mon Prince, on me fait tort!" (Help, my prince, I am being wronged). Then he recited the Lord's Prayer in French. Without a word, the workmen picked up their tools...