Defendants commenced operations for the drilling of a well on the bank of Bayou Pierre, between the ordinary high-water mark and the ordinary low-water mark, and between the upper and lower boundary lines of plaintiff's land. Defendants based their...

Petitioner Heath hired two men to kill his wife. They kidnapped petitioner's wife from her home in Alabama and drove a short distance to Georgia where they shot her and abandoned her body in Georgia. Petitioner was charged with murder in Georgia and...

Leopold Meinrath is a Belgian entrepreneur engaged in the marketing and distribution of computers and computer-related products, principally in the Benelux countries and France. He commenced a suit to recover payments of "bonus compensation"...

A pilot, who contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 1985, applied for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) medical certificates in 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004 without disclosing his HIV status or his medications. He was charged with...

The wife, Charlotte Mahoney, was convicted of manslaughter for killing her husband, Howard Mahoney. Howard died intestate and the probate court determined that it would be unjust to allow Charlotte to profit from her husband’s death and decreed...

Homeowners were all absent from their homes on the day that an accident at the mining company caused millions of gallons of water and a million tons of refuse to descend upon the homeowners' town. The homeowners brought action against the mining company...

Plaintiff, Francis Knize, brought an action against defendant, Waverly Knize, plaintiff’s former wife for libel, slander and character defamation. Plantiff claimed monetary damages as a result. The case was tried to the jury, which returned a verdict...

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue determined a deficiency of $22,737.38 in the petitioner's Federal income tax for 1980. The difference came from the petitioner setting fire to his wife's clothes, which resulted in the fire spreading and destroying...

An in-home caretaker was riding her bicycle from one private home where she worked to another home where she was scheduled to work when she was struck and injured by a car. Her employer, the State Department of Social Services (Department), paid the caretaker...

An employee was injured due to an alleged premises defect while working on behalf of respondent third party. He received workers' compensation benefits through his employer and brought suit against respondent for negligence. The trial court rendered...