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...Applegate, Calif, and high school went Plaintiff Peggy Larue Satterlee. "I think it's horrible," she said. "I knew those women on the jury would acquit him. They sat there and looked at him adoringly just like he was their son or something. . . . Here I am just two days less than 17 years old and I feel like a broken old woman...
Inferno. The plaintiff was chalk-haired, Roman-featured Federal Judge William Denman, 69-year-old chairman of World War I's U.S. Shipping Board. Jurist Denman accused General DeWitt...
...street. A passing motorist crashed into it, immediately threatened suit. Grumman and Swirbul retired to the corner dog wagon, there ate hamburgers moodily, brooding on the unprofitable aspects of a business launched with a legal action. But after the second cup of coffee they decided to stick. The plaintiff dropped his suit when the partners offered to repair his car free. Next step was to saw off the amphibian's tail, repair it, reattach the amputated section and return the corporation's first...
...suit concerned Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc. (twelve of the strongest Hearst papers and American Weekly), whose preferred stock was sold to the public for $50,000,000 in 1930. The plaintiff: Samuel Mann, a New Yorker who has 332 shares of the stock and a lawyer son. The general charge: that Consolidated had been dominated by Hearst (who owns common-stock control) for the benefit of his privately owned "upstream" companies. The demand: restitution to Consolidated of $32,500,000 which it was claimed had been lost through intercorporate finagling...
...Devil v. Jabez Stone. Presiding judge is the renowned Justice Hathorne, who hanged the Salem witches. On the jury sit twelve famed American dastards-among them Traitor Benedict Arnold; Simon Girty, who helped the Indians burn white settlers. The court, straight from Hell, is packed in favor of the plaintiff...