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In Minneapolis last week one I. J. Carr sued the manager of the Fall Theatre for $2,000 damages because of humiliation he claimed to have suffered when the theatre had failed to pay him a $150 prize after announcing that he had won it on Bank Night.
Last week the Supreme Court might have mopped up all these subsidiary questions, the first two in acting on the case of Louisiana rice millers who obtained a temporary injunction against payment of processing taxes (TIME, Dec. 2), the third in deciding the case of a Texan who sued a...
Digging of the Gauley Bridge tunnel ended in 1932. By that time about 500 silicosis deaths had spread terror throughout the territory. A smart Kentucky lawyer went over the mountains, instigated damage suits against Rinehart & Dennis. Some relicts won. Some derelicts won. Many lost or sued too late to accomplish...
Farmer Moor sued the railroad to make it transport his cotton on the ground that the Bankhead Act was unconstitutional. Courts upheld the railroad on the ground that Plaintiff Moor either should have paid his tax first and then sued to recover from the Government, if the law was unconstitutional...
In Chicago, George Gaw, Chicago's onetime official greeter of celebrities, sued Lake Erie Chemical Co. in vain for $100,000 damages for the loss of the middle finger on his right, greeting hand, when one of the company's tear gas fountain pens exploded in his hand...