Show THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM COURTROOM- Just Jest a an Occupational Hazard I By Will Bernard LL.B. If an Acrobat Sprains an Ankle Is The Theater Owner Responsible A feature of a travelling vaudeville vaudeville vaudeville vaude vaude- ville show was a girl acrobat One evening at the end of her act she started walking off oft the stage Unfortunately Unfortunately Un- Un Jr fort fortunately In some inexplicable manner a rubber ball had rolled onto the platform The girl busy smiling at the audience stepped on the ball fell and sprained her r 1 r ankle Later she sued the theater owner for damages claiming that he was responsible for tor keeping the stage cloar of all obstacles But the court turned down her claim The judge said that the girl couldn't blame the management unless unless unless un un- less she could have proved that the ball bail had been lying there for tor some sometime time time long long enough to attract the attention of the stage hands A man was arrested on a n charge of beating his wife with a rolling pin At the trial the defendant took the witness stand to tell his side of ot the story The judge didn't like the way things were going and soon took over the cross examination cross himself He fired question after question at the m man man n all In a loud and angry voice Later the jury brought In a guilty guilt verdict but on appeal the man was awarded anew a anew new Dew trial The upper court sahl said that the Judges Judge's manner was Improper because It Indic Indicted Indicated ted prejudice May Maya a Person Carry a Grudge Beyond the Grave By Me Means ns of His Will A man got into legal difficulties with his partner In the midst of the bitter court battle that followed the man died In his will he left a substantial bequest to his son son but but only on the condition that the son would carry carryon on the fight against the p partner rt er to the bitter end As it happened the son had no stomach for the controversy So he went to court to test the validity of Df this grudge c clause ause arguing that it was against the public interest to perpetuate perpetuate perpetuate per per- a quarrel in this way But the judge disagreed and held that the unusual proviso was quite legal le le- le gal May a Dog Bite The Hand That Feeds Him A woman had a collie which had the nasty habit of nipping people One day a delivery man noticing the dog on the sidewalk held out a apiece apiece apiece piece of candy The animals animal's response response response re re- re- re was to bite his hand I When the man later sued the dogs dog's owner 0 o for damages she Insisted that his gesture had provoked the dog into biting However the court made her pay for the deliveryman's delivery deliveryman's deliveryman's mans man's Injury The judge Salt f that any dog mean enough to bite the hand that feeds him should not be allowed to run loose at all att I |