Injury, hurt, wound refer to impairments or wrongs. Injury, originally denoting a wrong done or suffered, is hence used for any kind of evil, impairment, or loss, caused or sustained: physical injury; injury to one's reputation. Hurt suggests especially physical injury, often bodily injury attended with pain: a bad hurt from a fall. A wound is usually a physical hurt caused by cutting, shooting, etc., or an emotional hurt: a serious wound in the shoulder; to inflict a wound by betraying someone's trust. Antonyms Expand. 1. benefit.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896). John Howard Ferguson was the judge in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, who heard the case of Homer A. Plessy under the Separate Car Act of 1890. Judge Ferguson had previously ruled that the act did not apply to interstate travel.
Ferguson Denied New Trial brad October 31, 2012 Mid-Missouri News A Missouri judge refuses to grant a new trial for a Columbia man convicted of second-degree murder in the 2001 killing of a newspaper sports editor. Cole County Circuit Judge Dan Green ruled Wednesday against Ryan Fergusonâs request. Ferguson was one of two teenagers accused in the beating and strangulation of Kent Heitholt outside the â¦