Case file #4457 King v. Blue Mountain Forest Association, 100 N.H. 212, 1956-1957

Collection Name:

Frank R. Kenison Papers, 1946-1974

Title:

Case file #4457 King v. Blue Mountain Forest Association, 100 N.H. 212, 1956-1957

Creator:

Burns, Calderwood & Bryant
Hinchey, Robert E.
Kenison, Frank R., 1907-1980
James, Fleming, 1904-1981
Upton, Richard F., 1914-1996
Nolin, William E.
Duncan, Laurence I., 1906-1982
Kimbrough, Robert T., 1902
Goodnow, John R.
Blandin, Amos Noyes, 1896
George J. Foster & Company

Creator Role:

Printer

Accession / Call Number:

1981.112

Object ID:

1981.112.4457

Date:

1956-1957

Type of Material:

textual record

Physical Description:

1 folder

Language:

English

Scope and Content:

New Hampshire Supreme Court case file #4457 Clarence W. King v. Blue Mountain Forest Association and John L. Meyette v. Blue Mountain Forest Association, 1956. The documents in this file include the defendant's brief by Burns, Calderwood & Bryand and Robert E. Hinchey and the plaintiff's brief by William E. Nolin and Richard F. Upton, both dated 1956. Both of these documents include notes presumably by Frank R. Kenison and state the case is an action where the plaintiffs of Plainfield, NH, seek damages for the destruction of crops by a wild boar owned by the defendant corporation. Also included are a number of pages of notes by an unidentified author; a first and second draft of the decision of the court; a motion for a rehearing dated June 8, 1956, submitted by the attorneys of the Blue Mountain Forest Association; a small newspaper clipping from the New York Times stating the wild board has been exterminated in England for three centuries; and numerous letters of correspondence and memos. Included in this correspondence is a letter from Frank R. Kenison in Concord, NH, to Professor Fleming James Jr. at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT, dated April 11, 1956, which inquires about his opinion on the pending court case; the response from James to Kenison dated April 16, 1956, which provides James' thoughts on the case and the basis of liability; a letter from Kenison to James dated June 5, 1956, which encloses a copy of the opinion of the case; a letter from Kenison to Robert T. Kimbrough of Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company in Rochester, NY, dated August 21, 1956, in which Kenison passes along the case for consideration for annotation; the response from Kimbrough to Kenison dated August 24, 1956, stating the case is a 'must' for annotation in the American Law Reports; a letter from Kimbrough to Kenison dated May 10, 1957, stating the case has been selected for annotation in the American Law Reports and provides a tentative title for it; a reply from Kenison on May13th thanking Kimbrough for the news; and a letter from Fleming James to Kenison dated only as June 9th thanking Kenison for the draft of the opinion of the court as he was anxious to know how the case was going to be decided. All memos in this file are from 1956 and are from Kenison on May 18th and 23rd as well as on June 20th, Laurence Ilsley Duncan on May 22nd and June 19th, John Richard Goodnow on May 23rd, and Amos Noyes Blandin Jr. on May 25th, which provide their opinions on the case and the motion for a rehearing.

Subjects:

Courts , Court records , Law , Judges , Judgments , Correspondence , Agriculture , Animals

Locations:

Sullivan County, NH
Plainfield, NH
New Haven, CT
Concord, NH
Rochester, NY

People:

King, Clarence , Meyette, John L. , James, Fleming, 1904-1981 , Kimbrough, Robert T., 1902 , Hinchey, Robert E. , Kenison, Frank R., 1907-1980 , Upton, Richard F., 1914-1996 , Nolin, William E. , Duncan, Laurence I., 1906-1982 , Goodnow, John R. , Blandin, Amos Noyes, 1896

Organizations:

Blue Mountain Forest Association
Yale University
Lawyers Cooperative Publishing
New York Times Company
Burns, Calderwood & Bryant
George J. Foster & Company
New Hampshire. Supreme Court

Terms of Use:

For permission to reproduce or publish material from this collection, please contact the New Hampshire Historical Society. Researchers are responsible for following all copyright and intellectual property laws.

Credit Line:

Gift of the estate of Frank R. Kenison.

Restrictions:

Available for research.

Level Description:

File

Box Number:

12