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The opinion of the court was delivered by Greene, J. : This action was brought by Agnes B. Head, as guardian of Harley Head, Anna Head and Louis Head, minors, against F. R. Spier and H. F. Sheldon, administrators of the estate of Nathaniel Head, deceased, to recover $529.25, which she claims as their distributive share of the estate of Nathaniel Head, Judgment was rendered for defendants below. Nathaniel Hea

ORDER RE: DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO STRIKE AND MOTION TO DISMISS AUDREY B. COLLINS, District Judge. Pending before the Court are two motions filed on July 3, 2012, by Defendants Raenee Robinson, Ray Charles Robinson, Jr., Sheila Robinson, David Robinson, Robert F. Robinson, Reatha Butler, and Robyn Moffett: a Motion to Strike Plaintiffs State-Law Causes of Action Pursuant to California’s Anti-SLAPP Law (Docke

31 Mass. App. Ct. 184 (1991) 575 N.E.2d 1137 COMMONWEALTH vs. MATTHEW SIMCOCK (and three companion cases[1]). No. 90-P-1198. Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk. May 10, 1991. August 6, 1991. Present: DREBEN, FINE, & GILLERMAN, JJ. Yvonne P. Toyloy, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for M

RITCHIE, District Judge. Plaintiffs brought this suit against defendants to quiet title to certain mining claims in the Willow Creek district. Plaintiffs have nine claims and defendants three, and defendants’ claims conflict with three of plaintiffs’ claims, covering most of the same ground. The real issue is that of annual labor done or not done in the year 1920 upon the Oregon group of claims, which preceded the locations of t

SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judge, dissenting. The majority opinion purports to “reaffirm Wells’s requirement that § 1983 plaintiffs must clearly notify any defendants of their intent to seek individual liability, and [to] clarify that reviewing the course of proceedings is the most appropriate way to determine whether such notice has been given and received, as demonstrated by our decisions in Pelfrey and

272 F.3d 769 (6th Cir. 2001) Ralph Moore, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant,v.City of Harriman; Harriman Police Department; Roy Jenkins, Chief of Police, Harriman Police Department; Darren McBroom; Terry Fink; Randy Heidle; Virgil McCart; Jerry Singleton, Defendants-Appellees. No. 99-5258 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Argued: December 6, 2000Decided

Defendant in error has filed its motion to dismiss this appeal upon the grounds that the time to make and serve the case-made was allowed by the court upon the application of plaintiff in error before the motion for a new trial had been overruled or even filed. It appears that after the jury had been impaneled to try the case and the attorneys had stated the case for each side, the first witness for the plaintiff in error having been placed upon the stand, the defendant objected to the introd

24 Cal.App.3d 571 (1972) 101 Cal. Rptr. 120 AMEL DRINNON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. FRANK THOMAS OLIVER, Defendant and Appellant; ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY, Intervener and Respondent. Docket No. 28109. Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two. March 21, 1972. *574 COUNSEL Tunn

On the trial there was much evidence offered on both sides, *Page 341 consisting of judgments, executions, deeds and parol testimony; but for the understanding of the case as it was decided in the Supreme Court, it is only necessary to state the following facts: The plaintiff was a creditor of Cyrus Bennet, one of the defendants, who owned the land in question, and obtained judgment for his debt in 1869, and had the land sold under an execution iss

The determinative facts in this action, giving the appellant the benefit of such material corrections in the finding as it is entitled to have made and omitting much of the detail, are as follows: Michael DeDonato owned a piece of land on Huntington Road in Bridgeport which was subject to three mortgages. Two of these had come into the possession of the American Bank and Trust Company, of which George N. Foster was receiver, and the other was owned by the Fields Mortgage and Realty Company. D

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On rehearing. The original opinion is reported in122 P.2d 191. This action was brought by the personal representative of John K. Spiers, deceased, for the benefit of his heirs, to recover damages for his death. The parties will be designated as they appeared in the court below. Plaintiff's complaint contains two causes of action: First, to recover damages sustained by the heirs by reason of the death of Spiers, and second, to recover damages for oblig

By an act approved March 3, 1899 (Stats. 1899, p. 47), the legislature added certain sections to the Political Code, providing thereby an exclusive scheme *Page 340 controlling political parties in holding their conventions for the nomination of candidates to public office. The act is known as the primary election law, and for convenience may be so designated. Plaintiff, a resident and taxpayer of the city and county of San Francisco, by his complaint sou

By the Court, Parker, P. J. This is an action for partition. The parties all claim under the will of William Spier, bearing date May 24, 1821, to which a codicil was added October 4, 1830. The testator died in 1833. The clause of the will on which the title of these parties, to the lands in question, depends, is as follows : “I give my eldest daughter, Polly Guernsey, in addition to what I have already given her, a lot o

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] *Page 186 This is a contest of an application to probate an instrument as the last will and testament of R. N. Ervin, who died on March 27, 1924, an inhabitant of Hale county, Ala. He had about reached in age the three score years and ten. Pearl Howard, his cousin, named as executrix and as a devisee in the instrument, make

Johnson, President: On the 20th day of February, 1888, William Davis was, in the Circuit Court of Ritchie county, indicted for maliciously, etc., stabbing one’ Creed Wilson, with intent to maim, disfigure, disable, and kill him. The prisoner moved to quash the indictment, which motion was overruled, and the prisoner pleaded not guilty. The jury was sworn on the 24th day of February to try the issue. It appears from an order

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING. In their motion for a rehearing respondents insist that under the pleadings appellant is not entitled in any event to participate in profits made in the business of furnishing horses and mules to the British Government and other belligerent allied powers engaged in the World War after March 1, 1916, the date of the sale agreement between J.C. Wolcott and J.D. Guyton. A brief survey of the record pertinent thereto will disclose the