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...American League Baseball Club because a ball batted by George Herman ("Babe") Ruth hit him at Yankee Stadium in 1934. To the defense that some might consider it an honor to be hit by the world's homerun king, Justice Lester Lazarus sniffed : "No doubt, but the plaintiff could not appreciate the honor, as he was knocked un conscious...
Settled, The claim of Frank Brandon Smith Jr., Charlotte, N. C. hardwareman against his onetime father-in-law, Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon. Thrice Plaintiff Smith took to court his charge that Towelman Cannon had disrupted his marriage with Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith, who previously had divorced the late Zachary Smith Reynolds (Camels). Plaintiff Smith had sued for $250,000 balm, got $12,600 out of court...
Fortnight ago, in an atmosphere bristling with Pennsylvania politics, the Inquirer showed up at the Washington courthouse with a scrappy lawyer named Ralph B. Evans. Plaintiff Margiotti was flanked by the pick of the State's prosecutors. Lawyer Evans put the Attorney General on the stand, got him to admit that he had given advice in some of the tax cases the Inquirer had originally mentioned. When the Attorney General persisted in elaborate asides to the jury, Lawyer Evans infuriated him by leaning back, hooking his thumbs in his vest and observing: "I have the bulge...
...behalf of myself and all other consumers of agricultural products." This Russian-born left-winger sought to restrain Standard Milling Co., National Biscuit Co., Wheatena Corp., Postum Co., Consolidated Cigar Corp., Corn Products Refining Co. and 19 other companies from "disposing and wasting" any of their refunded tax. Plaintiff Reiskind, a lawyer, conceded that a prorata rebate to all consumers would be impossible, thought that the money should revert to the U. S. Treasury. Meanwhile the Chicago butchers charged that the packers had passed along their tax in the form of higher meat prices. The butchers claimed that as they...
...made so bold as to declare that he "is not a Baronet, nor even a Loddon, and can hardly be accurately described as a Member of Parliament, as he secured his return by practicing on the electorate the same deliberate fraud he practiced on his wife." In theory the plaintiff but in fact the defendant. Lord Loddon is gravely suspected of having exchanged identities with another Briton in a German prison camp during the War. And his explanations look a little more hopeless every time another of his witnesses takes the stand. About five minutes before the last curtain Author...