Legal Opinion
Heath v. United States
District Court, N.D. Alabama
Decided July 28, 1949No. Civ. 624PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNNE, District Judge.
When a judge is confronted by a factual situation in which his sense of inherent justice seems to be at war with his appreciation of the applicable law, it behooves him to proceed with more than ordinary caution. Strained construction, the device of the judge who seeks to reconcile legal logic with his individual concept of natural right and wrong, first begets, then multiplies confusion.
On May 8, 1948, in the City of Anniston, Alabama, within this district, Private Frisco Frison, a soldier in the Army of the United States, while driving an ambulance in a convoy of…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Karr, Admr. v. SixtOhio Supreme Court · 1946
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3Cited by10 opinions
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