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...Paris court saw a small French farce played and produced by Playwright-Actor Sacha Guitry, 67, his fourth wife, Geneviève de Sèreville, and his fifth, the former Lana Marconi. In the role of plaintiff, Guitry charged that wife No. 4 had continued to use the name Madame Guitry, which led to "much confusion," particularly when wife No. 5 kept getting No. 4's bills. Guitry asked the court to award him 20,000 francs ($60) every time Geneviève used his name. Said Geneviève in defense: Sacha had said when they were...
...court affirmed the decision of a lower court, which awarded damages to the plaintiff on counts of battery and false imprisonment...
...still thinking about running, but insisted he hadn't made up his mind. Said he: "I'm not like the justice of the peace in Kentucky, who announced that he was taking the case under advisement and would render a decision in one week for the plaintiff...
...Johnson, peered over the rims of its half-moon spectacles and remarked with acerbity: "This is a very ordinary case." But to the ruddy-cheeked Sussex countrymen who jammed a Lewes courtroorn last week, the air seemed charged with mysterious mesmeric forces. There was, for example, the plea of plaintiff's counsel that the defendant "should not sit anywhere in sight" of his client. "You are asking," inquired Justice Croom-Johnson, "that he should not hypnotize her?" Barrister John Flowers, Queen's Counsel, replied only that "it would be better if he is not too close." "The jury...
...true that an anxiety neurosis such as Diana's could have come from an unhappy love affair? It could be, began Van Pelt, but at that point Justice Croom-Johnson chose to interrupt. "A typical example of anxiety neurosis," he remarked, "is the anxiety of the plaintiff in this case, who wants to recover damages." The courtroom rocked in laughter. "Do not use Americanisms in this court," the judge warned Slater as the vaudevillian warmed to a climax in the best U.S. gangster-film mouthpiece style...