Case file #4470 Russell v. Arthur Whitcomb Inc., 100 N.H. 171, 1956

Collection Name:

Frank R. Kenison Papers, 1946-1974

Title:

Case file #4470 Russell v. Arthur Whitcomb Inc., 100 N.H. 171, 1956

Creator:

Bell & Bell
Lane, Howard B.
Duncan, Laurence I., 1906-1982
Kenison, Frank R., 1907-1980
Goodnow, John R.
Blandin, Amos Noyes, 1896
Bell, Ernest L., III
Lampron, Edward John, 1909
Howell

Creator Role:

Printer

Accession / Call Number:

1981.112

Object ID:

1981.112.4470

Date:

1956

Type of Material:

textual record

Physical Description:

1 folder

Language:

English

Scope and Content:

New Hampshire Supreme Court case file #4470 Gerard F. Russell and Margaret Russell v. Arthur Whitcomb, Inc., 1955-1956. The documents in this file include the defendant's brief by Bell & Bell dated March Term, 1956 and the plaintiff's brief by Howard B. Lane dated September Term, 1955. Both of these documents include notes on the cover, presumably by Frank R. Kenison, and state the case is an action for damages to the plaintiff's home due to negligence by the defendant for not properly filling in an excavated made to repair a sewer line in Keene, NH. Also included are drafts of the decision of the court; memos from 1956 from Laurence Ilsley Duncan on March 30th, John Richard Goodnow on March 23rd, and Amos Noyes Blandin Jr. on March 26th, which provide their opinions on the decision of the case; a motion for a rehearing submitted by Ernest L. Bell III; votes on the motion of a rehearing from Frank R. Kenison, Edward John Lampron, Blandin, Duncan, and Goodnow between April 9-14, 1956; and a letter from Kenison to the editorial department of West Publishing Company in Saint Paul, MN, requesting an edit on the location of quotation marks on page 782.

Subjects:

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

Locations:

Cheshire County, NH
Saint Paul, MN
Concord, NH
Keene, NH

People:

Lane, Howard B. , Duncan, Laurence I., 1906-1982 , Kenison, Frank R., 1907-1980 , Goodnow, John R. , Blandin, Amos Noyes, 1896 , Bell, Ernest L., III , Lampron, Edward John, 1909 , Russell, Gerard F. , Russell, Margaret

Organizations:

New Hampshire. Supreme Court
West Publishing Company
Arthur Whitcomb, Inc.
Bell & Bell
Howell

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