Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...malicious, scandalous and defamatory matter." To Hennepin County District Judge Fitting applied County Attorney Floyd B. Olson, in 1927, for an injunction to suppress the Minneapolis weekly, The Saturday Press. Said Attorney Olson: The Saturday Press was "a scandal sheet"; it had "maliciously slandered" him.* Judge Fitting agreed with Plaintiff Olson, issued a temporary injunction against The Saturday Press. Publishers Howard A. Guilford and J. M. Near appealed to the State Supreme Court; the appeal was denied, the injunction made permanent. Last week their second appeal to the State Supreme Court was denied. Ruled the court "[The Saturday Press...
Many are the smoke, dirt, and odor "nuisances" which cause citizens to heckle corporations. Last week in Toledo one Herbert D. Widmer sued Toledo Seed & Oil Co., subsidiary of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., for $25,000. Charge: Castor bean dust released by the defendant's plant caused Plaintiff Widmer to contract asthma. Eagerly awaiting the suit's outcome are more than 250 asthmatic Toledans, some of whom had to drive into the country of nights to escape the castor bean dust before the City Council recently ordered the plant shut...
...suit which had kept house unit number two, beyond McKinlock Hall, from rising above its foundations was dropped by the plaintiff yesterday. The case, which was due to come up in court this morning, was an attempt to restrain Harvard University by injunction from raising a building which would obscure a view of the Charies from a house owned by the plaintiff in the vicinity of Memorial Drive...
...Publishing words which "in their common acceptance" charged the plaintiff with fornication and adultery...
Returning to Chicago, Burns met Emily del Pino (later Mrs. Burns, the plaintiff), who was then "37, of good character and morals ... in possession of a flourishing business and doing well." Burns boarded at her mother's house, during which time he illegally obtained pay-check money while timekeeper for a construction company. He borrowed $2,500 from Emily del Pino, started his magazine. He never paid back the money, she says. After the magazine was started, Convict Burns and Plaintiff del Pino were married "to the entire satisfaction and good wishes of his family" (his brother is a minister...