Show THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM Sensitive Soprano Sa rand Couldn't Collect By Will Bernard May Maya a Soprano Collect Damages Because Her Feelings are arc Hurt A woman was hired to sing soprano In a church choir After a afew afew few tew months church officials decided decided de de- de that they didn't like her voice after atter all all so so they fired her Since the womans woman's contract still had three months to go they offered to pay her ber salary for the remaining period But she wasn't satisfied r It 1 4 with that She also allo claimed damages damages dam ages ales for embarrassment saying that thet the affair had bad caused her ber sickness of ot mind and mental agony However the court refused to grant Irant any additional amount of 01 mone money The judge said laid that such an I injury was too COO vague to be evaluated evaluated eval In dollars and cents A fisherman set let up his net nets pear near the shore hore of a large inland lake Early the next morning a man came alon along in a rowboat scooped cooped severs several dozen fish out of ot the nets net and went happily on his bis wa way But Dut somebody tattled and tattled and the man was arrested on II a charge chare of ot theft At the trial be he claimed that fish are tree free for tor aU all until actually hauled out of th the water But th the court disagreed and found th the man matt guilty lb The Judge said that fish fib belon belong to the tint first person who captures cap cp tures turn them s I A churchgoer and some friends were discussing their minister Why hes he's Just an old drunkard cried the man When the minister heard about this he sued the man manfor manfor manfor for slander At the trial the man protested that calling somebody a drunkard isn't so terrible and terrible and that a minister isn't any better than Ulan anybody else anyhow But Dut the court held him liable saying that a ministers minister's good lood name Is not something to trifle with The Judge pointed out that a reputation tor for clean and upright living is vital Are Arc You Responsible For Damage Done By Your Cat A man who owned a cat moved next door to a man who raised pigeons As might be expected trouble w wasn't long in coming One night the cat slipped Into the neighbors neighbor's neighbors neighbor's neigh bors bor's garage and slew no less than 13 IS The angry neighbor filed tiled suit for tor the value of ot the birds jk charging that the cats cat's owner was guilty of harboring a vicious ani an- mal rail But the court turned down the tb neighbors neighbor's claim The Judge Judg said ald the cat wasn't vicious but was mere merely I obeying the natural instinct of 01 all aU cats ca lie ile added that it was Wal far tar more sensible to guard th the pigeons than to lock up the th call uti |