Show contributory negligence while attorney james lundsal gordon was waiting in the corridore corri corrid dort org of the county courthouse last week for a negligence case in which he appeared to be called he explained contributory negligence to an in in the language of an 01 oil I 1 vir ginia negro preacher the parson parsons s salary had been running far behind and he was manifesting no little uneasiness about it mild expostulation failed to accomplish re suits finally one sunday the dea 3 cons had an unusually poor offering and as the parson sur surveyed veed it he said de trouble wit dis huyuh church churell brethren and am de con tribu f tory negligence of the congregation wha yo mean by dat jahson pah son inquired the senior deacon I 1 mean jes what I 1 sed repeated the parson emphatically when de plate am passed around nearly all ot of dem neglects to contribute phila delalla ledger |