Defendant seller sold its subsidiary to the plaintiff buyer. Plaintiff later filed suit, alleging that it entered into the transaction based on misleading financial information provided by the defendant. Defendant gave notice of its intent to depose a...

A diversity action was instituted by the estate of a person who was killed in an automobile-truck collision, the estate of another deceased person and another person who had been injured in the collision also being joined as plaintiffs, against the estate...

Defendant threw a beer glass against a lighted oil lamp that his wife was carrying. The lamp broke, the burning oil splattered on her, and she burned to death. defendant's daughter and mother-in-law witnessed the tragedy. Defendant was convicted by...

Respondent injured party checked into a hotel and, despite four inches of ice and snow, requested to receive a room close to a door near an area of the parking lot that had not been shoveled. Respondent parked her car near that door and fell on the ice...

Appellant opened an adult bookstore in appellee township. Thereafter, appellee township enacted an ordinance making appellant's bookstore a nonconforming land use in its then location; the ordinance contained an amortization provision that would have...

Apellant, the administratrix of postmaster's estate, sought review of a judgment that rejected a claim for the postmaster's salary where he was removed from office before the expiration of his term by an order of the President, without the Senate's...

Grantor quitclaimed real property to plaintiff, and subsequently granted mineral deed to defendant grantee who thereafter transferred his interest to defendant purchaser. Each defendant recorded mineral rights before plaintiff recorded deed. Plaintiff...

Plaintiffs jointly brought a 12-count action, alleging discriminatory employment practices by defendants. The district court severed the first 10 counts into 10 separate causes of action and withheld determination of the propriety of the purported class...

Tenants filed a complaint against landlord alleging breach of the warranty of habitability. Tenants filed a motion for summary judgment and for judgment on the pleadings, which was denied by the trial court. Plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme Court of...

A case was field for intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault, and negligence claims against a tortfeasor for injuries that she sustained in an automobile accident. The tortfeasor screamed vile and threatening obscenities at the injured motorist...