Show THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM COURTROOM- 1 Grouchy Iceman Not Rot at a Fault By Will Bernard May an Iceman Frighten Children Away from His Truck An Iceman was In a very grouchy mood one morning while making his rounds As AI he ho walked out of a customers customer's back yard he noticed several children gathered around his bis truck grabbing little pieces of ice Hey you youl the iceman roared threateningly One little boy was so 0 frightened that he ran into J r s r r lf r the street right in front of a passing car The child chUd was wai injured and ADd later a lawsuit was brought on ids his behalf bebaU against the iceman However the court ourt decided that the theman theman man maa wasn't to blame for the mis- mis bap The Tho Judge said the iceman bad had a right to warn the children away way from the truck and it U wasn't his bis fault tault that one ona boy ran the Vi wrong way A man went to a barber shop to bave have his bis shoes shined A As A. he h. w. w was getting down dawn from the stand he lost lot his bis balance and tumbled to the floor When be he got home borne and counted his bis bruises the man decided de tided b had bad a damage claim against the barber tie lit tiled filed suit suit- but the Judge threw the CUe case out of court The Th Judge decided that a barber batter cant can't guarantee his customers custom i i era ers against any and all aU dangers dangers- and anyhow a person ought to beable bt be able to climb down dow from a shoe Ibo shine bin stand by bl himself o A truck driver parked in an alIcy alley al al- Icy ley and got ready to unload a heavy bundle of cloth Without looking he lifted the package and pushed it off the truck at the same moment shouting houting Look Lookout out I A man walking by was Wal hit by the bundle and suffered a broken broken broken bro bro- ken arm in the mishap Later the victim sued the trucking company for tor damages and the court granted his claim The Judge ruled that the truck driver should hould have either looked first or ox hollered e e May Maya a Trolley Conductor Punch A Quarrelsome Passenger A tat fat man got into an argument with a street treet car conductor over a alost alost alost lost nickeL The dispute waxed hotter and hotter and finally theman theman the theman man called the conductor a liar Promptly the latter doubled his bis fist and punched the hefty passenger lassen a. a ger in the stomach Later the man tiled filed a damage suit fur ter vr assault ane and battery The conductor conductors defense delene was wal that the passenger bad had started the th argument but the court held him liable anyhow an Tb The Judge judie said laid that the conductor of at a public conveyance con must mutt always alway treat his pallene with respect and I that didn't mean meaD punching them Inthe ia In n the stomach |