In a suit under 42 U.S.C.S. § 1983, a jury verdict for respondent developer alleging unlawful deprivation of property was upheld, because the reasonableness of petitioner city's rejection of a development plan was primarily a factual issue to...

A rejected suitor terrorized appellant by threatening to have appellant killed or maimed if she did not date him. In fear for her life, appellant went to respondent city's police for protection, which was refused. After appellant became engaged to...

The minor child attributed his injuries to the defective design and condition of the jointer machine. The corporation's third-party complaint against the school district charged that the school district's improper maintenance of the machine and...

Plaintiff brought an action to recover damages for injuries to her person and property incurred in an automobile accident caused by brake failure on defendant's car. The trial court denied plaintiff's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict...

The court accepted jurisdiction to examine the correctness of the appellate court's decision approving the trial court's instruction on proximate cause. The court reversed the lower courts' judgments as to all parties except for the owner...

Plaintiff alleged that the city and construction company knew or should have known that discharging firearms was an ultra-hazardous, highly dangerous activity, an activity that was the proximate cause of the injuries. The complaint averred that he was...

The parties entered into a contractual land purchase agreement with respondents, wherein appellants were bound for a period of 25 years from exercising the right to make optimum and lawful use of their property. Appellant's testimony showed that his...

An action for libel was brought by Sullivan, a City Commissioner in Montgomery, Alabama, against the New York Times alleging that the newspaper published defamatory statements in a paid advertisement describing the maltreatment of African American students...

The railroad negligently caused a fire that destroyed its woodshed. The fire spread to the landowner's property 130 feet away from the shed and destroyed a building. The landowner sued the railroad to recover for the damage to the building. The court...

Defendant was charged with second-degree murder under N.Y. Penal Law § 125.25 (1975) for killing his estranged wife's friend. After defendant was convicted of murder, he appealed the verdict on the basis that the need to prove the affirmative...