Show THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM No Sees Seats No Excuse for Suit By Will Bernard r 1 May MOO a Train Passenger Collect Damages because He Ho Could Not Find a Seat A feeble old man boarded an Interurban In In- train trait only to find that all aU the seats eats were taken When the theco conductor co ductor came by ta to collect fares the man complained complained but but to no Reluctantly he paid for fol his hil tt ticket ket and stood up throughout the trip Utterly exhausted by the ordeal or ore deal he later latu sued the railroad for damages The court agreed that a railroad ought to provide a seat eat for tor every passenger However the tho thou judge u le turned down the old mans man's claim on the ground that he be had hadt hadI t I waved waived its his rights by staying aboard a ard the train The judge said tb- tb that if U bo ho wanted to sue lue he ho should have refused to pay his faro tare and I rotten gotten oft off at the first tInt top stop Does a Divorcee Lose Her HerAl Al Alimony many if She Remarries After several leveral years of ot unhappy married life We lUo the wife of a contractor tor went to court COutt and got a divorce She Slie also was awarded weekly all aU mony sunny payments until further order of ot the court Some Sarno time Ume later the woman remarried this thU time tima choosing a laborer who w. w was hardly making 11 a living tor for himself The e contra contractor tor promptly asked the thee court e to stop top his alimony pay meats ments but the tha judge refused refund to do so 10 0 The judge said that remarriage lone alone wasn't wain enough to end the womans woman's right to alimony It was wal also necessary the tho judge ruled that the th second nd husband b be able to u support port his bb wife wit properly It If he Ile couldn't said aId the judge jude th the first husband just bad had to keep on pay lull Ing Is It For a Father To Take His Child Away From the Mother A husband and wife had a bitter quarrel and decided to separate Before parting they agreed that their year seven son Ion should remain remain re se main with his mother A It few months month later the man decided he had bad made a bad bargain in giving up the child One day he be went to the house houe and over his wife's wite violent violent vio vie lent protests took the child chUd with him An alarm was sent out and the man was soon oon picked up on a charge charle of However a acourt acourt acourt court ruled that he was not guilty The judge said that unless deprived deprived de do of at his childs child's custody by actual actual ac ac- court order the father had bad just a as much right to the boy as a. the mother bad had ee May Maya a Lawyer Ploy Play Upon the Sectional Feelings of the Jury A It southern woman owed some ome money to a large larg New Jersey corporation cor cor- After collection efforts had tailed failed the company toed filed a lawsuit i the woman At ht the trial her Iler lawyer made an Impassioned ImP stoned plea to the jury on behalf of ot his hi client I appeal to you as southern i gentlemen he cried sited to rule In favor tavor of at this southern worn an and an-and and against this thU aou soulless s corporation corporation cor cot from the North But Dut the court declared that this lire line of argument was Improper and ordered or or- ordered dered the jury to disregard it ft The judge Judie said Ild that the tho lawyer should not try to win his bis case by appeal peal pealing lag ing f tI tIthe the sectional feelings of at tbt tha jury |