Borrowers sued a lender seeking damages for fraud and negligent misrepresentation. The borrowers alleged that they were induced to enter into a contract with the lender by the lender's oral misrepresentations of the terms contained in the written...

Defendant operated a bait business. Despite the state statute prohibiting the importation of live baitfish, defendant arranged to have live bait delivered to him from outside the state. The shipment was intercepted and defendant was indicted under §...

FBI officers seized property and cash pursuant to a search warrant after petitioner inmate was arrested. While the petitioner was incarcerated, the FBI sent letters of its intention to forfeit the cash by certified mail addressed to the petitioner care...

Defendants were involved in a speed competition in automobiles on the public highway when one of the defendant's automobiles crashed into plaintiffs' automobile. Plaintiffs brought an action against defendants for concurrent negligence. After...

Defendant car dealer's advertisement listed a price for a used automobile that was significantly less than intended because of typographical and proofreading errors made by a local newspaper. Plaintiff consumer attempted to purchase it by tendering...

Plaintiffs in two sets of consolidated cases suffered severe economic losses from business and street closures that resulted from defendants' construction project disasters. In consolidated appeal of the first of two cases, defendant construction...

The servient estate granted the predecessor an easement over the estate to reach the predecessor's estate. At the time of the conveyance, the predecessor used his estate as a single-family residence and used a one-lane dirt road to reach the residence...

Plaintiffs, a corporation and its guarantors, sued defendant corporation, invoking diversity jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C.S. § 1332 . Defendant counterclaimed. A jury trial was held in the United States District Court for the Central District...

Defendant's truck became bogged down in a marshy area off a highway. After unsuccessfully attempting to free the truck and after waiting hours for assistance, defendant and his companions took a front-end loader and a dump truck from a highway department...

Pending a referendum vote of farmers upon wheat quotas proclaimed by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, the Secretary made a radio address in which he advocated approval of the quotas and called attention to the...