Show THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM COURTROOM- COURTROOM COURTROOM- Some Promises Arent Aren't Binding By y Will Bernard Are Arc You Bound sound by a Promise Made Under Great Emotional Stress A sudden fire tire trapped a woman In the attic of her home and firemen firemen fire fire- men were unable to reach her In Inthe Inthe Inthe the midst of the blaze the womans woman's husband returned from his office Frantically he cried Ill pay V to anybody who brings out my wife dead wife dead or alive aUvel I A bystander rushed Into the flaming house fought his way upstairs and carrIed carried car card ried Tied the woman out Unfortunately 6 the she had bad already died from lion tion Later the rescuer demanded the he had been promised The husband huband pleaded that he should not DOt be bound by a promise under such luch circumstances but the court ruled that he must Indeed pay the full tull amount The judge pointed out that the bystander had risked his own life lUe to fulfill the husbands husband's plea plea and and therefore was entitled to his reward t s a e e eAn An advertising executive quay quarrelled retied with his wife almost dally daily At last after alter an especially bitter exchange ex change they decided to rail call it quits quit Acting on a friends friend's advice they oOn soon obtained a mail flail order di divorce dJ di vorce Yore from a court urt in a foreign country wl without country without out ever leaving town However when the decree was wa test tet ed liter later in a United States State court th the couple found toune out that they were still tW con considered Ide red husband and wile wife The Judge Judie said Mid that the foreign court had bad no DO jurisdiction over the parties A woman wrote a magazine article arti artl cle clo maliciously maliciously and and inaccurately- inaccurately attacking the character of George Washington Acting on the protests of outraged citizens the police arrested arrested ar ar- ar rested the writer on charges of de de- At the trial she argued that her attack couldn't do any harm harm because because Washington and his family were all dead anyhow But the court found the woman guilty as 81 charged The judge said that it was wrong to maliciously blacken the name of a person who still lived In 10 Inthe Inthe the memories of at his countrymen a May You Stop The Neighbors Neighbor's Dog From Howling A doctor fitted up a room at the back of his home and began using it u it as an office AU All went well until a anew anew anew new family moved in next door door door- with a dog dOl Every morning the neighbors would go out for tor about two hours houri leaving the dog dOl locked In a bedroom During that time the animal would give live vent to such uch sucha aW wow a 4 a howling an and ani yelping that the doe doe- tor could hardly examine his hi patients pa At last he went to court for foran foran forn an n injunction The neighbors neighbor argued arc arg tied that there there h is nothing unlawful about the barking of ot a dog dOl but the court foun granted the doctors doctor's request The Judge Jude said a dogs dog In ing mg U fa ordinarily permissible but at atIlt least must be kept within reasonable reasonable reason reason- able bounds bound I |