Show jf J I THE THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM dm 3 S Spare are Those Horses I By Will Bernard LL.B. You Holler When hen You Fell a Tree I One morning a farmer went to work digging up a dead tree At I last ast the roots broke loose The tree came ame e crashing down across the thet t aback tack back fence just fence just as a neighbor was gassing passing assing by with a team of horses I everal Several big branches landed on the horses borses or es killing ng them instantly Afterward the neighbor sued for forI I I. I t l. l s 1 ithe value of the two animals blam blam- sing ling the farmer for not hollering a arning The farmer insisted that the neighbor could see what was oli Dittoing joing on and therefore should have out of harms harm's way But the ourt disagreed Holding the farm- farm 03 oater liable the judge said he should jave ave shouted a warning as he hethe 1 vas as the only one who could tell the Ule moment of danger L. L 71 The owner of a female collie was to discover that the city 1 license it-license cense tax wa was 3 for female logs ind only 1 for male malc dogs dogg He inI in m. I ly refused to pay and ought the matter all the way to tort rt l e state stale supreme court The man that the tax was and therefore tj 1 However the court ruled eU that the levy was quite legal The dEC felt that thal it il was nil right t ts t t- s between so dogs-so long e eJ 8 S there c was no discrimination beO be be- O Pe people veople who vho owned them I Gt Gf w l ld d aj I 1 A girls girl's father who had a suspicious suspicious suspicious cious nature decided that one youth was taking advantage of his daughter One day he confronted the pair and told them in m plain language that they must get married The youth was perfectly willing willing but but the girl agreed only because of her fathers father's insistence Soon after aCler the wedding she filed flied suit for an art annulment pleading that she had gotten married under coercion coercion coercion co But the court rejected her request The judge said the girl still had a mind of her own S S S Must You Step More Carefully in the Dark Than in the Light An engineer was hired to check the heating system of an office building While poking around Inthe in inthe inthe the basement he came upon a large metal door Curious he opened it it Alas it led to an elevator shaft Down he fell to the bottom one floor below Later he sued th the b b. iding owner for damages arguing ing that the shaft was not properly safeguarded But the court rejected his claim saying that the engineer himself was negligent for stepping into an m unknown darkness Said th the judge Darkness is natures nature's o own warning to arouse the natural instinct instinct in instinct of self protection an and aud should be even more convincing lI lIthan I than a Danger sign on the door I J 1 |