The appellee, as assignee of letters patent No. 222,767, dated December 16, 1879, and No. 242,497, dated June 7, 1881, issued to Edgar A. Wright, for certain new and useful improvements in wheeled cultivators, brought this suit against the appellants...

Sharon and Dennis H., appellees, were half-brother and half-sister by blood, born of the same mother, but of different fathers. Sharon, when approximately 10 days old, was adopted by the W. family, by whom she was raised. Dennis became a ward of the State...

Plaintiff promoter, B. Lewis Productions, Inc. (BLP) and a reknown poet, Maya Angelou, entered into an agreement whereby the promoter was given the exclusive right to exploit Angelou's literary works. BLP negotiated a deal whereby defendant Hallmark...

Defendant trademarked a circular beach towel. His company pitched the towel as a fashion statement and also targeted lazy sunbathers on the basis that the round shape eliminated the need to constantly get up and move the towel as the sun moved across...

On July 18, 2003, Gilpin drove his adult son Joseph to the Ivy Tech campus in Indianapolis. He waited in his van while his son went into a campus building. When Joseph returned to the vehicle after registering for classes, Gilpin asked his son to show...

Hi all I would really appreciate some assistance or comment on my query. In a landlord and tenant matter I am questioning if the mum or daughter is the landlord, where there is an AST in place. The tenancy agreement states that the mother is the landlord...

After an adult bookstore located in a borough's commercial zone introduced a coin-operated mechanism that permitted customers to watch a live dancer, usually nude, performing behind a glass panel, complaints were filed against the bookstore operators...

A barge owned by National Marine, Inc. cast adrift when it slipped its moorings at a dock operated by Transport Distributors, Inc. (TDI), in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, collided with another dock and two boats, causing damages that have been...

Plaintiff Luna Innovations Incorporated instituted a breach of contract action, centering on defendant Verner Science, Inc.'s rejection of shipment of certain electronic equipment. Defendant filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings, arguing that...

In 1949, plaintiff Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation ("Mid-Continent") and defendants Cora Lee Lindner and her husband, Paul Lindner, executed series of documents whereby: (1) Mrs. Lindner, for a rental of one cent for each gallon of fuel...