Show I t THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM Some Oaths Need a Little Salt SaltBy Salty By y Will Bernard ILL Should Statements Under Oath Da De Taken With a Grain of Salt A man went wen bankrupt and was wai balled bailed into court b by his creditors At the hearing bearing he admitted that h he bad had had bad MOO in cash just a few days day before but before but claimed he be bad lost It all I was walking down the street treet he be related carrying this thI mone money In a satchel While waiting tor for a street car car I l happened to look lookdown lookdown lookdown down and I noticed that the bag bac had fallen off and oU-and and I J was holding only onI the handle Since the ba bag was no no- nowhere nowhere where to be seen leen I threw away the handle band and went home ham Though there Hero was ao no 0 way to disprove the story alOfT the judge Judie decided he be just didn't believe and lt-and It and ordered the th theman theman man to find the 1000 somehow The judge Judie figured that although the story was told under oath It was too incredible to be taken without with wIth- out wt a grain rain of ot salt It A miniature golf course was waa Il Illuminated U- U b b by a network of overhead over over- bead head lights After a heavy wind wind- torm storm one of ot the wires wire was wa left sagging anin about six aix feet leet above the ground S Several days daYI later a girl irl was Wal walking underneath that wire when ha a bumblebee swooped down At 1 her ker She Oun flung ber her arm upward Hind arid bit the wire The n. girl got lot a anasty anasty nut nasty shock and later iu sued lud d the th proprietor for or damages At the trial tit proprietor argued that elks tb girl bad bae brought broucht the th injury y pan herself But be tat lost the c. c ease can Does the Low Law Recognize zo The Principle of Cause and end Effect This famous case which arose Inthe In Inthe inthe the year rear 1770 laid down a doctrine that Is U still atilt considered basic in our legal system lItem Mr A A. A bent on mischief mis mil chief threw a giant Ilant firecracker- firecracker lighted Into Ugh lighted ted Into into a crowded market marketplace place It landed at the feet of Mr B who snatched It and frantically flung it away awa This time the sputtering sputtering thin thing landed near Mr C C. C who also allo threw it away to save himself The firecracker then fell feU beside Mr D D. D and exploded Mr D was Injured and sued Mr A for lor damages Mr fr A protested that he had thrown the firecracker at Mr B D not at Mr D D. D But the court beld held him responsible anyhow e eMay May You Strike Somebody For Sassing You A newsboy took a lively dislike to toa a storekeeper and on several everal occasions occa occa- Ions alons h he made faces at the man One day the boy tried his stunt just once too often The merchant seized an umbrella that Ula was wai bandy handy and smacked his tormentor oa on the bead head Arrested on a charge charle of f assault and battery the man insisted that his action was wa justified by the bo boys boy's constant sassing sailing In However the court disagreed and found round him guilt ty tJ as al charged charled The Jud judge said 1114 It takes take mor more than dirty look looks to justify an attack of this thi kind |