Show ODD GROUND FOR LAWSUIT irishman s vain effort to get a law yep to take his case samuel davis court stenographer ot the second circuit says that an irish man who several years ago tried to engage the legal services of bis tather had the oddest ground tor a lawsuit he has ever heard of the irishman wanted to sue his landlady for 15 he explained that he made a contract to pay her 3 a week for board but she viah to deduct 25 cents for every meal he missed having got the con tract duly signed pat began to board elsewhere and charged the lady with whom he had contracted 25 cents tor every meal he he figured that by managing this way he missed 5 25 worth of meals each week for which his contract required him to pay only 3 so that by staying away he made 2 25 clear the landlady refused to pay him his profits and he wanted mr davis to bring suit against her for him father laughed at him a bit mr davis says andl he got indignant A is ft said pat and she ought to be made to live up to her n just as well as me to mine there were several other lawyers in town and some of them were pretty hard up for cases but I 1 dont know of any body that took that one after tather turned it down kansas city journal |