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The article presents the seventh part of an eight-part series of the novel "The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary," about a woman who was trying to win in the case for the release of her father from prison by framing up her criminal lawyer.

Presents the second part of a series of articles on the life of Hollywood's famous defense lawyer Jerry Giesler. Tactics used in defending Charlie Chaplin from a sensational morals charge; Contention on how he cleared the obviously guilty dancer Lili St. Cyr from indecent exposure charges; Recollection on how Giesler waited for ninety-nine hours to convince the jury over the trial of Norman Selby who was charged with manslaughter.

The article presents the case of a man who sued his insurance company to get back the extra $2000 dollars he paid for an individual he ran down. The lawyer of the insurance company only offered $4000 from the full amount of the policy which is $5,000 to the individual. As a result, the individual went to court and was awarded $7,000 dollars which forced the man to pay extra $2,000. The court did not require the insurance company to pay the man back.

Presents the case of a man who filed a lawsuit against the tow operators because he was injured while getting ready to ski. Request of the operators for the court to throw out the case under a law requiring that ski-injury suits must be filed within a year; Defense of the plaintiff that he wasn't engaged in skiing, just getting ready to ski; Comment of the operators' lawyer on the case.

This article presents a court case an insurance company which refused to pay on grounds that water, not wind, floated the other house against a person named Harvey. Harvey's insurance covered damage by windstorm but not by water. The insurance company's attorney argued that without the water wind cannot move so the destruction was due to water. But Harvey did not agree with it and said that the wind blew the other house in living room, so it was due to wind. After arguments Harvey won the court case.

This article presents a court case in which a person named Morgan decided to will everything to one of his friends named Alex. Before he could see his lawyer, he mentioned his intention to Potts, a shoe salesman with a burning desire to be an attorney. Potts persuaded Morgan to let him draw up the will for a fee of one dollar. Shortly afterward, Morgan died. It then developed that his will was so improperly drawn that his estate went to his heirs instead of to Alex. Alex sued Potts for damages.

This article presents a hypothetical case situation and asks readers to give their judgment. Out-of-town businessmen who rented cars from the local rental service frequently parked overtime and ignored the parking tickets. New York City one day demanded that the rental service pay all the parking fines plus additional fines for ignoring traffic summonses. The city attorney argued that the city ordinance makes it illegal for the registered owner of an automobile to "cause, allow, permit or suffer" it to be parked overtime. Therefore the rental service, as the registered owner of these vehicles, should pay regardless of who was driving them.