Show THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM COURTROOM- Fathers Father's a Fight Fan FanBy By By Will Bernard May a Father be Held Liable for Encouraging His Sons to too Fight Two brothers hearing their father arguing with a neighbor rushed up and gave the neighbor a sound thrashing The father didn't do any actual fighting but encouraged his hi pone eons ons with such cries as 81 Sock hunt himl Kill him html and Give It to Later the battered neighbor sued 1 l oeo c Na U all all three men for damages The sons eons admitted their guilt but the father Insisted that be he personally hadn't done anything wrong How Itow However ever the court held him equally responsible for the tho attack The judge said He Ue did everything be he could to incite his hil sons sons' anger Such conduct made him an active participant in the tho assault and equally liable for the tho damage done don While leaving a mans man's house bouse one morning a doctor overheard his patient threatening to punch his hll wife In the jaw A few weeks later the man was arrested on a wife wife- beating charge charie and the doctor was summoned to the witness stand to tell teU what he had heard beard The huband bus bus- bands band's lawyer objected that a doctor doctor doc doe tor cannot reveal anything said by his patient but the court disagreed and allowed the doctor to tell teU his hi story The Judge said that a do doe doc tars tor's Jigs Pis Ji jre are re 4 only as t at ten tera confided professionally A drunk walked Into a hotel botel one night and demanded a room The clerk refused ordering the man out One word led to another and a fight ensued The clerk hurt his wrist In the melee and later sought workmen's compensation for the In In- Jury The hotel owner opposed his Ws claim saying that the clerk hadnot had bad hadnot I not been hired to fight with cus cus- However the court granted the clerk an award anyhow The Judge said the fight tight had occurred in the course of his work as II a clerk and the injury was covered S e eMay May You Throw Aside Someone Who Blocks y your ur p Path The landlord of an apartment house got mad at the milkman one day and told him to stay out of at the building from then on The next morning the milkman showed up at his usual time to make maka deliveries to several tenants who lived In the basement Angrily the tho landlord climbed on top of the basement hatchway to block him from going down the steps tep But Dut the milkman v would not be halted Seizing one on of the hatch doors bo ho Jerked it upward up ward ward throwing throwing the landlord against the railing The landlord was In in- Injured lured and later sued the milkman for tor damages However the court rejected re re- jetted the landlords landlord's claim pointing point point- log ing out that the tenant tenants milkman had just jut as much right to enter the building as the tenants themselves Having this thi said the judge the milkman also alao had bad the theto rt t to rm ve any and J 1 1 i g the ll |