Show THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM Passenger Resents Fare Play By By Will Bernard If the Railroad Agent Sells You The Wrong Ticket May the Conductor Put You off the Train A A railroad traveller paid for his hi passage plage to a distant city but the clerk of the depot accidentally gave him a ticket good only to a nearby town When the train came to this town the conductor insisted that the passenger either get oft off or pay more fare The man patsy flatly refused At last the tha Irate conductor dragged him bodily out of his seat and pushed 1 him oft off the car ear Afterward the man sued the tha railroad for dam damages cu He lie maintained the conductor conductor con con- ductor have bava taken his hi word f for the tact fact that ha he had bad already paid hi his full tull tare tar However the court disagreed ruUn ruling that theman the tha thaman theman man should have paid the tha difference differ enc enca then and settled the tha matter later with the tha depot clerk Not all aU courts take this thI viewpoint Is a Wedding Valid if tho the Bride Just N Nods ds Her Head Instead of Saying I Do DolOn Dol- Dol On the complaint of 01 f her ber husband a woman was wu charged with At the tho trial she Ih claimed that she he could not be bo guilty gutty of ot th that t charge because she be was wu really not married at sill all I Blandly she he explained that at It her bar wedding ceremony she be bad had hot bet sold said ld I do but had bad merely nodded her bead head The Tha court decided de d. the tha wedding was valid May Mayan an Accident Victim Collect Damages if Not Hurt But Just Scared A widow lived alone near a railroad railroad rail raU road track One morning while she was sitting peacefully on her bel back porch two freight trains collided and one of the cars toppled over into her back yard Although not i physically Injured in any way the woman sued the railroad for giving her such a scare car However the court denied her claim How Rough May a Policeman Be in Arresting a Drunkard A policeman was summoned into a cafe cat to arrest a drunken patron The Tha officer told the man to come coma alon along but the drunk suet Just sat ea t there motionless Angered the policeman snapped a handcuff on the tha mans man's left wrist and then or ordered or or- ordered dered dared him to lift his right When the drunk stubbornly refused to comply the tha officer slapped lappe 1 him three times Umea on the tha face with his then billy then led him away to jail Jan I ME uE i As Ai soon loon a as be he was wa released theman the theman theman man sued the officer for tor using un tut unnecessary necessary roughness The officer Insisted that he had bad a right to get tough in such ucb cases but the court decided that be b. had gone cone much too far tar Denouncing his action as a a vicious exercise of ot brutality the judge ordered him to pay pal damages to his hit victim The Tha Judge pointed out GUt that citizen citizens are aro not required to Jump at the tha snap of l a policeman's police poUce mans man's finger |