Word: countersuits
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...Catholic parents sued Mary's Lutheran parents for $500,000 for enticing Leland away from his church with a $75-a-month allowance and the promise of a $25,000 job in Mr. Werner's ironworks in Milwaukee (TIME, July 1). Mary's father filed a countersuit, the litigation was dropped, the wedding bells (Lutheran) rang...
Unconvinced, U.S. District Judge Harry C. Westover threw out of his Los Angeles court last week a $3,000,000 countersuit by Harrison charging California's attorney general with suppression and censorship for warning dealers and distributors that they might be prosecuted for handling Confidential and its gutter-sister Whisper. And in the first libel suit that has yet included Confidential's 3,000 California distributors as well as the magazine, Screen Star Maureen (The Quiet Man) O'Hara asked for $1,000,000 in damages for a March story that claimed she once picked...
...column. Furthermore, to make the Post's victory complete, Winchell's employers agreed to pay $30,000 to the Post to cover the legal expenses of bringing the suit and taking depositions (TIME, July 13, 1953). Winchell also agreed to drop his $2,000,000 countersuit for libel against the Post, Publisher Dorothy Schiff and Editor Wechsler...
Satisfaction. In Greenville, Miss., a jury impressed by the merits 1) of the damage suit brought by Mrs. W. C. Hudson against Vance Lipe after an auto collision, and 2) by Lipe's countersuit, found after brief deliberation "for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,000 and also for the defendant in the sum of $1,000, both parties being equally negligent...
...down unscathed, Farm Hand Charles G. Smeltzer explained that he had gone to the airport, climbed into the plane, "pulled on a few gadgets . . . and before I knew it, I was up in the air." Love's Old Sweet Song. In Knoxville, Tenn., John E. Weaver, filing a countersuit for divorce against Hattie Weaver, claimed she wrote a song describing their marriage entitled Thirty Years in Hell...