• Bernier v. Boston Edison Co.

    Defendant drivers collided in an intersection, and one became dazed and unknowingly let her foot slip from the brake to the gas pedal. She accelerated across the street and down a sidewalk, where she knocked down an electric light pole owned by defendant...
  • Montgomery v. National Convoy & Trucking Co.

    The passenger, riding in her automobile with her chauffeur driving, was injured when the automobile slid on ice and struck the owners' trucks that were stalled on the highway. The passenger brought an action against the truck owners that alleged her...
  • Eisenstadt v. Baird

    Appellant was convicted of, among other things, giving vaginal foam to an unmarried woman at the close of a lecture, a violation of Mass. Gen. Law Ann. ch. 272, § 21 . The district court dismissed appellant's petition for habeas corpus relief...
  • State v. Sophophone

    Defendant and three other individuals conspired to and broke into a house. The resident reported the break-in to the police. Defendant was caught and arrested upon fleeing the scene. One of the other individuals resisted arrest and shot at one of the...
  • Frigaliment Importing Co. v. B. N. S. Int'l Sales Corp.

    Defendant state sales corporation had two contracts with plaintiff foreign corporation for the sale of "chicken". After plaintiff received one shipment of stewing chicken and another was stopped, plaintiff brought a breach of warranty action...
  • Taylor v. Kentucky

    Taylor was tried for robbery in 1976, allegedly having forced his way into the home of James Maddox and stolen a house key and a billfold containing $ 10 to $ 15. The Commonwealth's only witness was Maddox. He testified that he had known Taylor for...
  • Sand v. Gold

    The defendant dog owner had two dogs which had never manifested any act of meanness. On one of the occasions when the plaintiff child went to the defendant dog owner's house, she was bitten by one of the dogs. Thereafter, plaintiff filed suit for...
  • Rudnick v. McMillan

    Letters written to the editor of a magazine or a newspaper are often like elaborate costume parties. Fact and opinion disguise their identities and pose as one another. Plaintiff Marcus Rudnick's father and another man ran the MU ranch on the Carrizo...
  • Chong v. Kind LLC

    Chong v. Kind LLC United States District Court for the Northern District of California February 15, 2022, Decided; February 15, 2022, Filed Case No. 21-cv-04528-RS Opinion  [*1216]  ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS I. INTRODUCTION In this putative class...
  • Browning v. Poirier

    Petitioner and respondent lived together in a romantic relationship beginning in 1991. In approximately 1993, the parties entered into an oral agreement in which they each agreed to purchase lottery tickets and to equally share in the proceeds of any...