Show FINE POINT ABOUT THE L LAW avi somewhat curious problem has ha bee baen raised by the decision DecI Ion of a learned judge suppose you owned a dog and a neighbor asked the courts to compel you to keep it from barking and yelping day and night interfering with his business and causing him and his bla famil family 7 loss of sleep and suppose the court handed down a decree requiring you to restrain your dog from barking yelping and howling except in cases cages of burglary or iare how cow would you set about obeying the order it if you fix it so the dog cannot bark at all and burglars invade your domicile oro fire breaks out and the dog cannot bark you may be robbed or murdered in peril by the injunction that your restraint of the barking yelping and howling shall extend only to those periods when there is no burglary or fire for the order expressly limits your right to restrain any barking yelping and howling aforesaid by those exceptions must I 1 you sit up nights and look out forr for burglars and fires and be ready to remove your restraint of the dogs vocalization when either or both appear yes you might get rid of the dog of course but there Is nothing said about that the law does not prohibit you keeping the dog all it Is concerned about Is that you shall not allow the dog to become a nuisance you have to place it under restraint but you can at least congratulate yourself that unlike the trusts you do not have to worry about what constitutes utes reasonable restraint because theres not a word about reasonableness in the law all you have to do Is to restrain tha alia animal from barkin ing yelping and howling except in cases of burglary or fire the exception may it Is true seem unreasonable but the law Is made to be obeyed somehow and it leaves it to you to find out how |