Show THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM COURTROOM- Its It's a Transparent Mistake By Will Bernard h Its a Shopper to Blame If U He hie Mistakes Mistake a Window For the Door The front of a paint store tor was as mostly plate glass including glass including the doors door One ODe sunny da day a customer walked In bought some ome paint and started out But Dut in la a moment of confusion contusion he aimed in the wrong direction direction and and didn't stop until he be bad had put one foot right through a plate glass glas window I When the store tore t I sued him for tor damages the custom custom- customer er protested that be had been confused con fused by all sU that glass and all sU that aunt sunlight However the court rejected re rOo this excuse and held the man liable for tor the value of the window The Tho judge said ald that if U a person peron was able to find tind his way into the store tore be he ought to b be able to find his way I out outi 0 A school high 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 an anton tion ton against the We youth At the trial the student argued that while be might have been a little careless be he wasn't guilty of t assault and bat tery because the accident was not intentional However when the judge j learned that the sidewalk was no less leis 1 than haD 14 U feet teet wide be he decided that the youth had bad indeed committed an assault and battery A man checked his hi suitcase at a depot parcel room receiving for tor forit forit it a numbered claim ticket He lIe didn't bother to read the ticket- ticket and end so 0 didn't see e the clause claw that in case cue of ot loss lOll the check room company was not liable for tor more than 10 Sure enough the suitcase suit case vanished When the man sued for the the value of at the contents the the company pointed to the 10 limitation clause on the ticket But Dut the court ruled that the man was entitled to full tull reimbursement for tor torb b his loss 1011 Is It Trespassing To Visit Someone I Without an Invitation A farmers farmer's son Ion decided to pay a visit to a neighboring farmer As the youth pushed his W. way through a field of taU tall corn com the neighbor heard beard him him coming coming but but couldn't see him Deciding the tha intruder was a fox tox the neighbor hastily grabbed a shotgun and fired hitting hItUn the thet t q r r J youth in the leg leI Later sued for tor damages the neighbor insisted that the young oun man was an uninvited trespasser and therefore had bad no kick However the tha court disagreed and awarded damages dam ages iel to the injured youth The Judge ude said he be w. w was not a trespasser trespass er es because there exists amon among fa tUm m folk as a. well ai as among others other au implied invitation to visit vult n each ch h other other |