The amateur stock-car driver was injured when a portion of owner's upper embankment of the racetrack collapsed. Prior to racing, the racecar driver signed a waiver document in which he agreed not to hold the owner liable for any injuries sustained...

The homeowners' house was in a subdivision located above the coal company's abandoned underground mines. The coal corporation used explosives in its strip mining activities near the subdivision. The homeowners sought to recover for damages to...

In an action by a child of decedent by a previous marriage, against decedent's husband to establish decedent's community property interest in funds derived from the husband's pension benefits, held in individual retirement accounts (IRA) accounts...

In an action by a child of decedent by a previous marriage, against decedent's husband to establish decedent's community property interest in funds derived from the husband's pension benefits, held in individual retirement accounts (IRA) accounts...

A wife here sues her former husband, an attorney, to set aside a community property settlement on the ground of fraud and lesion. She also prays that the court order an inventory of the assets of the former community, in order to partition it between...

In a dissolution of marriage action, the court found that a home acquired by the husband prior to his marriage was community property, based primarily on the fact that for 14 years community funds, managed and controlled by the wife, were used to make...

Petitioner Mrs. Sturiano was injured in Florida when her husband caused an automobile accident that resulted in his death. Mrs. Sturiano sued respondent, and the trial court granted Mrs. Sturiano a verdict in the amount of the applicable insurance coverage...

Appellant car owner's son borrowed his father's car for the evening and committed a theft. Respondent state brought an in rem action to forfeit the auto, and, without hearing testimony, the trial court ordered vesting of the title in the county...

Plaintiff Applied Equipment Corporation (Applied) entered into a subcontract with defendant Litton Saudi Arabia Limited (Litton), which was involved in a general contract to provide military equipment to Saudi Arabia. Applied agreed to procure certain...

Defendant former employees of Central Adjustment Bureau (“CAB”) had signed covenants not to compete with CAB. The defendants left CAB to form a company which competed directly with CAB. Consequently, CAB brought suit in Chancery Court seeking...