The patient developed severe pressure sores due to medical neglect, which required painful debridement. She filed a personal injury suit against the nursing home but died while her personal injury suit was pending. The patent's estate prevailed in...

The patient, who was 32 years of age when she was diagnosed with glaucoma, sued the ophthalmologists for medical malpractice, alleging that she suffered severe and permanent damage to her eyes as the proximate result of the ophthalmologists' negligence...

The Alaska Workers' Compensation Board (ACWB) denied a state employee's application for permanent total disability benefits. Subsequently, the Public Employees Retirement Board (PERB) conclusively determined that she was not physically able to...

Plaintiff brought an action for sum of money against a whip company, upon an account annexed for the payment for eel skins sold by plaintiff to the whip company. The plaintiff had sent eelskins in the same way four or five times before, which skins had...

A church brought a motion for judgment seeking to recover possession of a strip of land that it claimed its neighbor unlawfully withheld from the church. The neighbor and her predecessors in title claimed title by adverse possession. They had used the...

Plaintiffs owned a wharf in which ships docked to unload cargo. Defendant owned a ship that docked at plaintiffs' wharf during a storm. During the storm, plaintiffs' wharf was damaged by defendant's ship. Plaintiffs brought an action against...

The doctor informed the patient that he had not been able to find a localization guide wire after taking a biopsy of her lung, and that he had determined that it was better to leave it rather than continue the search procedure. The patient subsequently...

Plaintiff movie theatre sued defendants, local theatres and film distributors, claiming damages for antitrust violations and seeking an injunction against alleged anticompetitive practices. Plaintiff's delays and highly uncooperative behavior during...

A Ukrainian citizen traveled to the U.S. to marry her fiance and became pregnant with his child. The husband was her sole source of support. He told her he would not marry her until she signed the premarital agreement he tendered. She signed the agreement...

The decedent and his former girlfriend had broken up, and the decedent went to the former girlfriend's home and confronted her. The decedent obtained a rifle and, while the former girlfriend was walking away, it discharged. The former girlfriend continued...