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RIPPLE, Circuit Judge. In April 1987, a grand jury returned a two-count indictment against the five appellants in this case. The first count charged each of the five appellants with conspiring to travel in and use the facilities of interstate commerce to promote, carry on, and distribute the proceeds of unlawful activities involving prostitution. See 18 <

ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [35j AND GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [36] Judith E. Levy, United States District Judge This matter comes before the Court on cross motions for summary judgment regarding a contract dispute between plaintiff, Crestmark Bank, and defendant, Elec-trolux Home Products, Inc., and their rights to tools and mol

876 F.2d 787 63 A.F.T.R.2d 89-1379, 89-2 USTC P 9427 John S. PLEASANT, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants,v.Larry LOVELL, Larry Hyatt, Vernon Pixley, Kenneth Batson andTim Fortune, Defendants-Appellees. No. 87-1384. United States Court of Appeals,Tenth Circuit. May 16, 1989.As Amended June 6, 1989.

By the Court, Allen, J. There may have been some question whether the standing water, the subject of complaint, was the water of the creek which, obstructed in its natural passage, had penetrated through the porous soil on the plaintiff's land, or was the surface water which accumulated by reason of the obstructed natural drainage into the creek. But the case was disposed of upon a theory which excludes

By the Court, Barker, J. The defendant Pixley resists the foreclosure of the mortgage, on the ground that it has ceased to be a lien on the premises. That the sale of the same on the judgment, which was the prior lien, and the purchase by Gibbs, who was a stranger to the title, in law worked an absolute extinguishment of the mortgage lien. It is not disputed but what Milo W. Hill owned the fee of the l

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By the Court, Currey, C. J.: Action for work, labor and services rendered by the plaintiffs as attorneys and counsellors at law, for the defendant, a corporation duly organized and constituted under the Act of the Legislature, entitled “ An Act to provide for the incorporation of railroad companies and the management of the affairs thereof, and other matters relating thereto,” passed on the 20th of May, 1861, and of the severa

In the verified complaint filed in this action the plaintiff alleges that he is the owner and entitled to the possession of certain personal property of the value of six thousand two hundred dollars, which the defendants have unlawfully taken from him and converted to their own use. The defendants demurred; their demurrer was overruled; and, all but the bank failing to answer, their default was entered. Subsequently, upon their motion, the default was set aside by the district court, but upon

Justice HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court. We decide in this case whether land ownership includes an interest in groundwater in place that cannot be taken for public use without adequate compensation guaranteed by article I, section 17(a) of the Texas Constitution. 1 We hold that it does. We

22 F.3d 839 Michael QUALLS, By and Through Annie QUALLS, hisConservator; Annie Qualls, individually,Plaintiffs-Appellants,v.BLUE CROSS OF CALIFORNIA, INC.; Saddleback R.V. Sales, aCalifornia corporation, Defendants-Appellees. No. 92-56033. United States Court of Appeals,Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Jan. 31, 1994.Memorandum Filed Feb. 9, 1

1 Reported in 183 P.2d 793. On December 12, 1941, Edward Frederick Stalder, then a widower, duly executed a will. In the second paragraph of the instrument, he made certain specific bequests to several persons, classified as his "friends and loyal employees," and, in the third, a bequest of one dollar to his daughter, and then continued as follows: *Page 6

ORDER The memorandum disposition filed February 9, 1994, is redesignated as an authored opinion by Judge Harry Pregerson. OPINION PREGERSON, Circuit Judge: I. INTRODUCTION Michael Qualls appeals the district court order of summary judgment in favor of defendant-respondent Blue Cross of California (“Blue Cross”). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.

SATER, District Judge (after stating the facts as above). At the threshold the administrator’s right to maintain his action is challenged on two grounds: First, that section 3628, Rev. St. Ohio, 1908, does not contemplate or provide for a suit by a personal representative, hut gives a right of action to creditors only; second, that an Ohio administrator of an insolvent estate cannot maintain an action, at law or in equity, to re

394 N.E.2d 215 (1979) Robert E. THRASHER and Winifred M. Thrasher, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP OF MONROE COUNTY, Farrell Duckworth, Trustee of Van Buren Township, and Farrell N. Duckworth, Individually, Defendants-Appellees. No. 1-179A7. Court of Appeals of Indiana, First District. September 18, 1979. *216 Patric

Knowlton, J. The decision of this case involves two questions: first, what is the true construction of the statute in regard to allowances to widows by probate courts; secondly, what is the application of that statute to the facts agreed by the parties. The language of the law relied on by the petitioner is as follows: “Such parts of the personal estate of a deceased person as the Probate Court, having regard to all the circumsta

Rotiikock, J. The note in suit is for the sum of $15,000, with interest at eight per cent per annum. It was executed by the defendant on the sixth day of July, 1883, payable to the order of Stiles, Goldy & McMahon, and indorsed to the plaintiff. The defendant admitted the execution of the note, but alleged that it was given for margins upon certain purchases of short ribs of pork on the Chicago board of trade, and that it was

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The Attorney General filed, on April 14, 1934, a complaint against the receiver of the White Star Gas Oil Company, Jack W.T. Pomeroy, Clara Pomeroy, his wife, and the Starlene Gas Oil Company, the object of which was to collect, under authority of section 57-12-11, R.S. Utah 1933, a gasoline tax imposed by chapter 39, Laws of Utah 1923, as amended and carried into chapter 12, title 57, R.S. Utah 1933 (57-12-1 et seq.), on

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] *Page 542 J. Alexander Yoell died in July, 1904. In 1909 his widow, Emily C. Yoell, petitioned for a family allowance. Her petition was opposed by the special administratrix, but the court, after hearing, awarded a family allowance in the sum of one hundred dollars a month, dating from the death of the husband. From this or