Legal Opinion
Hammond v. United States
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided March 23, 1984No. Civil No. H 82-264PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, District Judge.
In 1916, Theodore Bodenwein, owner of The Day, a newspaper he had published in New London, Connecticut since 1891, expressed his “earnest hope [that] The Day, unlike us poor mortals, will be able to go on forever.” Stipulation of Facts (“Stip.”) ¶ 7 (filed May 9, 1983). By 1930, however, the publishing industry was increasingly *165inhabited by regional and national publishing chains that expanded by acquiring small local newspapers. Id. In 1938, Bodenwein executed a will (the “Will”), establishing the Day Trust (the…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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- Blair v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
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- United States v. CartwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Thor Power Tool Co. v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by3 opinions
- E. Wesley Hammond, Charles E. Shain, Deane C. Avery, Evan Hill and Walter Baker, Trustees of the Day Trust v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1985
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