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402 B.R. 728 (2008) In re AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL REFINERY, American International Petroleum, Debtors. Jason Searcy, Trustee, et al., Plaintiffs v. James Knight, et al., Defendants. Bankruptcy Nos. 04-21331, 04-21332. Adversary No. 06-2018. United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Louisiana. May 19, 2008. *733 Robin B. Cheatham, N

MARTIN, Circuit Judge, concurring: My approach to the question of whether giving preclusive effect to the Engle jury's fraudulent-concealment and conspiracy-to-fraudulently-conceal findings violates due process is different from that of the Majority.1 I write separately for that reason. In Graham v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.,

PREWITT, Presiding Judge. Plaintiffs sought damages from defendants as a result of a motor vehicle collision. Defendant Searcy was the operator of a motor vehicle which collided with a vehicle operated by plaintiff Donald Pollock. Farmers Insurance Company (Farmers) is plaintiffs’ insurance carrier, providing plaintiffs with underinsured motorist coverage. Farmers was made a defendant by plaintiffs on the theory that Searcy

In The Court of Appeals Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana ______________________________ No. 06

PER CURIAM. We conclude that the trial court reached the right result in this case and affirm. So long as improper means are not employed, activities in which one engages to safeguard or promote one’s own financial interests are non-actionable. See Ethyl Corporation v. Balter, 386 So.2d 1220, 1225 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980), review denied, 392 So.2d 1371 (Fla.), cert. denied, 452 U.S. 9

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING GARRETT, Judge. We grant appellee/cross-appellant Knight Investments, Incorporated’s motion for rehearing and substitute the following for our opinion of February 13, 1991: This is a consolidated appeal of a non-final order which entered judgment in favor of appellee/cross-appellant Knight Investments, Incorporated [Knight] and denied appellant/cross-appellee Ti

PER CURIAM. We reverse the summary final judgment entered by the trial court because we find, contrary to the conclusion of the trial court, that the contract provisions in dispute are sufficiently ambiguous to permit the introduction of parol evidence. ANSTEAD, GUNTHER and STONE, JJ., concur.

798 P.2d 914 (1990) 118 Idaho 632 STATE of Idaho, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Barryngton Eugene SEARCY, Defendant-Appellant. No. 17835. Supreme Court of Idaho. September 5, 1990. *915 William R. Forsberg, St. Anthony, for defendant-appellant. Jim Jones, Atty. Gen., Lynn E. Thomas, Sol. Gen. (argued), B

651 So.2d 97 (1994) Philip H. TAYLOR, Appellant, v. SEARCY DENNEY SCAROLA BARN-HART & SHIPLEY, P.A.; and Gary, Williams, Parenti & Taylor, P.A., Appellees. No. 93-0319. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. November 30, 1994. Opinion on Denial of Rehearing and Certification March 1, 1995. *98

This is an automatic appeal from a conviction for murder in the first degree and sentence of death. In bare outline, the evidence for the State tended to show that defendant entered a taxicab and rode out from town to a spot where defendant killed the taxi driver by stabbing him many times with an ice pick. The evidence for defendant tended to show self-defense. I. We are of opinion that the court did not err in overruling defendant's motion to postpone

Judge Knight Affirming. Bertie Bond,, who bad never married, died testate a resident of Anderson County on December 30, 1931. By her will she disposed of a large estate but there is involved in this litigation only the property devised under the residuary clause valued at about $15,000. This clause reads as follows: “The residue of my estate after all expenses are paid and the following beque

660 So.2d 786 (1995) KNIGHT ENERGY SERVICES, INC., and/or Knight Energy Turnpike Services, Inc., and/or Knight Service Centers, Ltd., and/or Knight Enterprises, Inc., and/or High Test, Inc., and/or Charles A. Wilkinson, and/or Priority Properties, Inc., and/or William L. Knight, Appellants, v. AMOCO OIL COMPANY, Jack E. Bouska, Moe Bern and J.D. Robbins, Appellees. No. 94-1812. District Court of Appeal

B.C. Kelly sued Searcy, as guardian of Thaddie and Preston Hart, minor children of T.L. Hart, deceased, to recover for moneys paid by the said Kelly in discharge of the assessments made upon a certificate of life insurance issued to the said T.L. Hart by the Knights of Honor. The certificate was for the sum of $2,000 and was made payable to his wife, M. Hart, and Theodore Hart, his brother, in equal amounts. The assessments were paid by Kelly under an agreement which was entered into between

616 So.2d 1079 (1993) KNIGHT ENERGY SERVICES, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. C.R. INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISES, INC., Appellee/Cross-Appellant. No. 90-2619. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. April 7, 1993. *1080 Russell S. Bohn of Edna L. Caruso, P.A., and Jack Scarola of Searcy, Denney

202 S.E.2d 314 (1974) 20 N.C. App. 559 George Giffen SEARCY, by his Guardian ad Litem, Gregory W. Schiro v. George Giffen JUSTICE. Annette Searcy LEVI v. George Giffen JUSTICE. No. 7421DC31. Court of Appeals of North Carolina. February 6, 1974. Certiorari Denied April 2, 1974. *315

356 S.W.2d 59 (1962) Bruce E. MYERS, Respondent, v. William L. SEARCY, Appellant. No. 48720. Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1. March 12, 1962. Motion for Rehearing or to Transfer Denied April 9, 1962. *60 Hilary A. Bush, Paul E. Vardeman, Jr., Johnson, Lucas, Bush & Vardeman, Kansas City, for appella

Mr. Justice Farmer delivered the opinion of the court: Henry Knight, Edward Knight, John Smith and Ralph Lazelle were indicted by the grand jury of Edgar county, at the February term, 1922, for the larceny of one steer of' the value of $75, the property of Scott Baker. Henry Knight was tried and convicted under the indictment at the June term of the Edgar county

This writ of error was sued out to review the judgment of the circuit court of Edgar county convicting Ernest Knight of the crime of receiving stolen goods knowing them to be stolen. The indictment was in one count, and charged the defendant with receiving twelve joints of meat, the property of Mike Remley, which had been stolen, well knowing that they had been stolen. A motion was made to quash the indictment for the reason that it does not state what a "joint of meat" is or the kind

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment assessed at death. Appellant, a man something *Page 246 over forty years of age, lived in the city of North Fort Worth, Texas. In 1891 he agreed to live with Flo B. Knight as man and wife. There was never any marriage license procured, or ceremony performed, but according to the facts before us they continued. to live professedly in the relation of man and wife up to the time of the

McCulloch, C. J. Alpha Smith (then unmarried) and Mrs. Eva Hall, wife of J. W. Hall, were the owners, as equal tenants in common, of ¡certain real estate in the city of Searcy, which they inherited from their father, and which they occupied as their homestead. J. W. Hall was engaged in the mercantile buiness in Searcy, and borrowed money from one Quattlebaum in t