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Show I THE READER'S COURTROOM 1 It's a Transparent Mistake By Will Bernard, LL.B. Is a Shopper to Blame If He Mistakes a Window For the Door? The front of paint store was mostly plate glass including the doors. One sunny day a customer walked in, bought some paint, and tarted out. But, in a moment of confusion, he aimed in the wrong direction and didn't stop until he had put one foot right through a plate glass window! When the store A man checked his suitcase at a depot parcel room, receiving for it a numbered claim ticket. He didn't bother to read the ticket and so didn't see the clause that, in case of loss, the check room company was not liable for more than $10. Sure enough, the suitcase suit-case vanished. When the man sued for $200 the value of the contents the company pointed to the $10 limitation clause on the ticket. But the court ruled that the man was entitled to full reimbursement for his loss. e Is it "Trespassing" To Visit Someone Without an Invitation? A farmer's son decided to pay a visit to a neighboring farmer. As the youth pushed his way through a field of tall corn, the neighbor heard him coming but couldn't see him. Deciding the intruder was a fox, the neighbor hastily grabbed a shotgun and fired hitting the 7 sued him for damages, the customer custom-er protested that he had been confused con-fused by all that glass and all that sunlight However, the court rejected re-jected this excuse and held the man liable for the value of the window. The judge said that if a person was able to find his way into the store he ought to be able to find his way outl A high-school student, riding a bicycle on a sidewalk, struck a pedestrian from behind and knocked him down. The pedestrian later brought an assault and battery action ac-tion against the youth. At the trial, the student argued that, while he might have been a little careless, he wasn't guilty of assault and battery bat-tery because the accident was not Intentional. However, when the Judge learned that the sidewalk was no less than 14 feet wide, he decided that the youth had indeed committed an assault and battery. y)uth in the leg. Later sued for damages, the neighbor insisted that the young man was an uninvited "trespasser" and therefore had no kick coming. However, tha court disagreed and awarded damages dam-ages to the injured youth. The judge said he was not a trespasser trespass-er "because there exists among farm folk, as well as among others, an implied invitation to visit each other." |