MONOLITH PORTLAND MID. CO. v. RECONSTRUCTION F. CORP.

No. 14841.

240 F.2d 444 (1957)

MONOLITH PORTLAND MIDWEST COMPANY, a corporation, Appellant, v. RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION, a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 30, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph T. Enright, Norman Elliott, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Allan E. Charles, Frank L. Adamson, Lillick, Geary, Wheat, Adams & Charles, San Francisco, Cal., Earl L. Martin, Lyon & Lyon, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, LEMMON, and HAMLEY, Circuit Judges.


LEMMON, Circuit Judge.

Attorneys often give high rhetorical praise to the function of a jury under the common law system — and then, when it suits their clients' purposes, in order to defeat an adversary's demand for a jury trial they invoke "Governmental immunity", "lack of statutory right", "inappropriateness", etc.

In the instant case, we do not propose to lend ourselves to any such ambivaluation of that potent instrument of Anglo-American law.<...

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