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Littlejohns V. Henderson |
111 Cal.App. 115, District Court of Appeal, Third District, California, Docket Number CIV 4230 (1/15/1931) |
Appeal from Superior Court, Los Angeles County; Leon R. Yankwich, Judge. Action by Thomas S. Littlejohns and others against Francis Henderson and others. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiffs appeal. Reversed, with instructions. |
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Marshall V. Charleston & W.c. Ry. Co. |
164 S.C. 283, Supreme Court of South Carolina, Docket Number 13056 (1/20/1931) |
Appeal from Common Pleas Circuit Court of Hampton County; W. H. Grimball, Judge. Actions by G. Walter Marshall and by Henry R. Stuart against the Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Company, tried together by agreement. From judgments in favor of defendant, upon directed verdict, plaintiffs appeal. Reversed and remanded for new trial. |
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This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
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Melheiser V. Central Trust Co. Of Owensboro |
237 Ky. 757, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (3/6/1931) |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Daviess County. Action by J. C. Melheiser and others against the Central Trust Company of Owensboro, Ky. From a judgment dismissing the petition, plaintiffs appeal. Reversed and cause remanded. |
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Miles V. Long |
342 Ill. 589, Supreme Court of Illinois, Docket Number 20454 (2/18/1931) |
Suit by Carrie Miles against S. E. Long and others. Decree for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. |
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E. M. B. |
Nationality Within the British Commonwealth of Nations, by E. F. W. Grey Van Pittius. London, P. S. King & Son, Ltd., 1930. Pp. Xvi, 238. 10/- |
40 Yale Law Journal 680 (February, 1931) |
This treatise, a doctoral dissertation presented at the University of London by the senior lecturer in political science at the University of Pretoria, is a study of the nationality laws of the United Kingdom and the dominions of the British Empire. The author examines the four kinds of British subjects which the peculiar municipal and... |
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Nixon V. Condon |
49 F.2d 1012, Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 5758 (5/16/1931) |
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas; Charles A. Boynton, Judge. Action by L. A. Nixon against James Condon and another. Judgment for defendants (34 F.(2d) 464), and plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. |
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O'hara V. Grand Lodge Independent Order of Good Templars of State of California |
Docket Number 191 Cal. 510, Supreme Court of California, Docket Number SAC. 3249 (7/14/1931) |
In Bank. Action by Russell F. O'Hara and another against the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars of the State of California. From an adverse judgment, defendant appeals. Modified and, as so modified, affirmed. |
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Page V. Commonwealth |
157 Va. 325, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (9/17/1931) |
Appeal from State Corporation Commission. Condemnation proceeding by the Commonwealth, on the relation of the City of Norfolk, against the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Company and another, in which E. A. Page and others intervened. From an order granting right to institute proceedings, interveners appeal. Affirmed. |
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Pickel V. Mccawley |
329 Mo. 166, Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2, Docket Number 29630 (10/1/1931) |
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court; Moses Hartmann, Judge. Petition by Emma Pickel and others against O. J. McCawley and others, wherein defendants filed a crosspetition. From a judgment and decree in favor of plaintiffs, denying defendants' prayer for relief, defendants appeal. Judgment nisi affirmed. |
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Pryor V. Richardson |
9 Smith (TN) 346, Supreme Court of Tennessee (4/4/1931) |
Appeal from Chancery Court, Williamson County; J. C. Hobbs, Chancellor. Bill by Mrs. Mamie Pryor and others against Felix G. Richardson and others, and by Felix G. Richardson and others against Jim McKay and others. From a decree dismissing the bill in the first cause, complainants appeal, and from the decree in the second cause an appeal was... |
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Ramirez V. State |
119 Tex.Crim. 362, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 13789 (4/15/1931) |
Commissioners' Decision. Appeal from District Court, Menard County; J. H. McLean, Judge. Geronimo Ramirez was convicted for castration, and he appeals. Affirmed. |
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Roberts V. James |
160 S.C. 291, Supreme Court of South Carolina, Docket Number 13152 (5/22/1931) |
Appeal from Common Pleas Circuit Court of Greenville County; T. J. Mauldin, Judge. Action by W. F. Roberts against Joe W. James and another, partners doing business under the name and style of the Alliance Bonded Warehouse. From an order of nonsuit, plaintiff appeals. Reversed and remanded. |
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Saksagansky V. Weedin |
53 F.2d 13, Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Docket Number 6555 (10/19/1931) |
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington; Jeremiah Neterer, Judge. Proceedings by Michael Saksagansky for a writ of habeas corpus to be directed to Luther Weedin, United States Commissioner of Immigration, District No. 28. From a judgment denying the writ, petitioner... |
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School Dist. No. 7, Muskogee County, Okl. V. Hunnicutt |
51 F.2d 528, District Court, E.D. Oklahoma, Docket Number 4178 (1/15/1931) |
In Equity. Suit by School District No. 7, Muskogee County Oklahoma, and the trustees thereof, against Clarence Hunnicutt, County Superintendent. Bill dismissed. |
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Stanton V. Schmidt |
45 Ohio App. 203, Court of Appeals of Ohio, Second District, Franklin County, Docket Number 2054 (10/23/1931) |
Action by one Stanton and others against Harry E. Schmidt and others. From an adverse judgment, the named defendant appeals.[Editorial Statement.] Decree in accordance with opinion. |
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State ex Rel. Cheeks V. Wirt |
203 Ind. 121, Supreme Court of Indiana, Docket Number 25776 (7/21/1931) |
Appeal from Porter Circuit Court; Grant Crumpacker, Judge. Mandamus by the State, on the relation of Alberta Cheeks, a minor, by her next friend, Richard Cheeks, against William Albert Wirt, Superintendent of Gary Schools, and the School City of Gary. Judgment for defendants, and relatrix appeals. Affirmed. |
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State V. Hershon |
329 Mo. 469, Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2, Docket Number 31346 (12/11/1931) |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jackson County; Thomas J. Seehorn, Judge. Joe Hershon was convicted of murder in in the first degree, and he appeals. Affirmed, with instruction to execute judgement. |
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State V. Wilson |
162 S.C. 413, Supreme Court of South Carolina, Docket Number 13262 (10/30/1931) |
Appeal from General Sessions Circuit Court of Charleston County; M. A. McCrae, Special Judge. W. K. Wilson was convicted of an assault with intent to ravish, and he appeals. Affirmed. |
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Statement as to Jurisdiction on Appeal, Salvatierra V. Independent School Dist. Known as the Inhabitants of the Town of Del Rio |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 195 (7/27/1931) |
May it Please the Court: The Appellants in support of the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court to review the above entitled and numbered cause on appeal respectfully represent. The Act of... |
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Walter Nelles |
Stephen J. Field: Craftsman of the Law. By Carl Brent Swisher. Washington, the Brookings Institution, 1930. Pp. Viii, 473. $4 |
40 Yale Law Journal 998 (April, 1931) |
Mr. Swisher's biography of Justice Field is valuable. It lacks qualities which in Beveridge's Life of Marshall somehow turn faults into assets. It is skimpy in the sort of background which humanizes the interests and ideas to which judges react. Field himself would stand clearer if others of the dramatis personae of his life figured as more than... |
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Sullivan V. Walburn |
9 N.J. Misc. 280, District Court of New Jersey, Burlington County (1/29/1931) |
Action by Partrick J. Sullivan against Harold A. Walburn. On defendant's rule to show cause why a judgment by default against him should not be vacated. Rule made absolute, and judgment vacated. |
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Walter Nelles |
The First American Labor Case |
41 Yale Law Journal 165 (December, 1931) |
The yeast which was to raise the labor injunction was working vigorously in 1877. But some of its earlier ferments are also informing to the student of the subsequent product. Before 1877 there had not, in this country, been many instances of resort to the courts in labor troubles. To contemporary observation they may have seemed to affect the... |
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Washington V. King |
159 S.C. 431, Supreme Court of South Carolina, Docket Number 13077 (2/26/1931) |
Appeal from Common Pleas Circuit Court of Clarendon County; John S. Wilson, Judge. Proceeding by Lucretia Washington against S. B. King, Insurance Commissioner of South Carolina, and another. From an order favorable to the former, the latter appeal. Reversed. |
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White V. Hamilton |
38 Ariz. 256, Supreme Court of Arizona, Docket Number 2994 (5/11/1931) |
Action by Nola Hamilton and others, trustees of Palm Chapter No. 3, Order of the Eastern Star, against Noble E. White and others. From the judgment, defendant appeal. Reversed and remanded. |
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Williams V. Commercial Land Co. |
Court of Appeals of Ohio, Second District, Franklin County (4/11/1931) |
It will therefore be noted that at the time the defendants filed the amended demurrer there had been no modification whatever in the allegations of the amended petition. These allegations were directed specifically against Helen J. Williams who, at the time of the decree, was dead, and, of course, had no interest in the premises and could not be an... |
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Winston V. State |
24 Ala.App. 393, Court of Appeals of Alabama, Docket Number 8 DIV. 304 (6/16/1931) |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Morgan County; W. W. Callahan, Judge. Novella, alias Noveler, Winston was convicted of assault with intent to murder, and she appeals. Affirmed. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court in Winston v. State, 137 So. 313. |
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Atlanta Coca-cola Bottling Co. V. Shipp |
170 Ga. 817, Supreme Court of Georgia, Docket Number 7430 (7/19/1930) |
Certified Questions from Court of Appeals. Action by E. E. Shipp against the Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. On certified questions from Court of Appeals. Questions answered. BECK, P. J., dissenting. |
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Atlanta Coca-cola Bottling Co. V. Shipp |
41 Ga.App. 705, Court of Appeals of Georgia, Division No. 2, Docket Number 19216 (8/28/1930) |
Error from Superior Court, Fulton County; E. D. Thomas, Judge. Action by E. E. Shipp against the Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Reversed. |
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Boles V. Nash |
145 Okla. 120, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Docket Number 19427 (5/13/1930) |
Commissioners' Opinion. Appeal from District Court, Logan County; Charles C. Smith, Judge. Action by Lucy Nash against R. C. Boles. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Affirmed. |
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Brief as Amicus Curiae, U.s. V. Sprague |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 606 (1/1/1930) |
The undersigned respectfully moves this Honorable Court for leave to file the accompanying brief in this case as amicus curiae. The question presented for decision is whether or not... |
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