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Show I THE READER'S COURTROOM Give and Take in Divorce -By Will Bernard, LL.B. Is it too Late to Change Your Mind After the Divorce? A young wife divorced her husband, hus-band, but both soon decided they had made a terrible mistake. Back they went to the same judge, and asked him to cancel the divorce decree. He did so. Then, about a year later, the husband again changed his mind and asked the A drunken customer in a bar began be-gan to get boisterous, and the bartender bar-tender decided to eject him. He threw the man out so vigorously that the drunk crashed into a girl walking past the front entrance. Injured In-jured by the collision, the girl sued the bartender for damages. He protested pro-tested that he was just exercising his right to get rid of an obnoxious customer, but the court held him responsible anyhow. The judge said that, while the bouncing was all right, it should have been done with regard for the safety of passers-by. May a Landlord "Smoke Out" A Tenant Who Won't Move? A landlord served an eviction notice no-tice on an elderly widow and she agreed to get out by a certain date. But when the day arrived, the woman wom-an happened to be sick in bed and so she didn't leave. In a fury, the landlord opened the wood stove, poured some water on the embers, ou ah iijrrD,WSMND iiii rlt court to cancel the cancellation! He insisted that, once a divorce is granted, it is permanent unless the couple gets married all over again. However, the court ruled that the divorce was no longer in effect and the pair were indeed husband and wife. The judge said, if a court can give a divorce, it can take it back too! A man moved into a bachelor apartment, taking a one-year lease. Two months later he moved out, complaining that he couldn't bear the foul language of the family in the adjoining apartment. When the landlord sued him for the balance of the year's rent, the man argued that the landlord himself was to blame for allowing such uncouth language in the building. But the court ruled in favor of the landlord, saying that he was not obliged to interfere in the situation just so he didn't actually encourage it. and "let it smoke." The harassed woman finally got out but later filed a suit against the landlord for assault. He protested that a tenant has no right to remain on the prem- , ises after the eviction date. However, How-ever, the judge said that was no excuse for such malicious tactics by the landlord and ordered him to pay damages to the widow. |
