Exam 2: Case taglines
IV. Contracts
IVB. Making contracts
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Minneapolis
and St. Louis Railway v. Columbus Rolling Mill (1886) - iron rails
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Sherwood v. Walker (1887) - pregnant cow
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Hamer v. Sidway (1891) - clean living
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Broadnax v. Ledbetter (1907) - captured killer
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Cotnam v. Wisdom (1907) - fatal fall
IVC. Enforcing contracts
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Harding v. Ja Laur Corp. (1974) - duped seller
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Stambovsky v. Ackley (1991) - haunted house
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Alaska Packers Assn. v. Domenico (1902) - salmon
fishing
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Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. (1965) -
costly stereo
IVD. Interpreting contracts
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Wood v. Duff-Gordon (1917) - designer fashions
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Suydam v. Jacskon (1873) - water damaged premises
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Albert M. Greenfield & Co. v. Kolea - fire
damaged premises
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Morin Building Products Inc. v. Baystone Construction
Inc. (1983) - aluminum siding
IVE. Breaking contracts
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Goebel v. Linn (1882) - beer ice
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Walgreen Co. v. Sara Creek Property Co. (1992) -
competing pharmacies
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Hawkins v. McGee (1929) - hairy hand
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Groves v John Wunder Co. (1939) - grading land
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Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal & Mining Co. (1963) -
restoring land
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Hadley v Baxendale (1854) - miller gets shafted
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Lake River Corp v. Carborundum Co. (1985) - bagging
equipment
V. Torts
VB. Harm
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Winn Dixie Stores, Inc. (d) v. Benton (p) (1991) -
spilled milk
VC. Causation
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Davies v. Mann (1842) - "get your ass off the
road"
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British Columbia Electric Rail Co., Ltd. (d) v. Loach (p)
(1916) - you need a brake job
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Central of Georgia Ry. Co. (d) v. Price (p) (1898) -
a train conductor, a passenger, a hotel, and a lamp
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Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Company (1928) -
fireworks topple scale
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Blyth v. Birmingham Waterworks (1856) - when hell
freezes over
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Adams v. Bullock (1919) - hotwire
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Berry v. The Bourough of Sugar Notch (1899) - falling
tree punishes speeder
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Kingston v. Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. (1927) - you
can only burn up once
VD. Liability
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United States v. Carroll Towing Co. (1947) - the Hand
formula
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Saglimbeni v. West End Brewing Co. (1948) - recycling
hurts
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Dunn v. Hoffman Beverage Co. (1941) - res ipsa
loquitor
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Butterfield v. Forrester (1809) - speed spills
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Dobson v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. (1990) -
death online
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Ordway v. Superior Court (1988) - jockeying for
damages
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Turner v Big Lake Oil Company (1936) -
escaping salt water
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Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. (1944) - another
bursting bottle
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McDaniel v. McNeil Lab. Inc. (1976) - drugs
kill
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Summers v. Tice (1948) - long shot
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Ybarra v. Spangard (1944) - back pain
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Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories (1980) - what
are the odds?
VE. Damages
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Vosburg v. Putney (1891) - you kicked him where?
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Wycko v. Gnodtke (1960) - remember to back up
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Hunt v. K-Mart Corp. (1999) - sit still
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Rickards v. Sun Oil Co. (1945) - business
battles bridge-bashing boat