Show Reader's Courtroom Wrong Doer Broker Went Broke Dog's Best Friends By Will LL.B. Stat laws For personal your local Is it Your Own Fault If You Mistake a Stairway For a A woman took her kitten to a neighbor's house one morning and asked if she could leave it there for The neighbor walked over to a opened it and her in Thinking it was a the woman picked up the kitten and stepped through the the door opened onto a stairway and the poor woman tumbled all the way down to the Considerably shaken up by the she later sued her neighbor for But the court turned down the woman's saying it was her own fault for carrying the kitten through the The Judge said the natural thing to in locking up a is to push it through the door with one's hands and then quickly close the May a Real Estate Agent Two A man who owned a home near downtown hired a real estate agent to find him some property on the city's A few days a woman living in the suburbs asked the same agent to find her a place in the The agent seized the opportunity to engineer a trade between the figuring that he would collect a nice commission from both Unluckily for the owners compared notes and found out about the double Both thereupon refused to pay a cent to the and the court upheld their The judge said if an agent is working for both he can't do a good job for either This rule has been traced to the Biblical maxim that servant can serve two Should a Dog Be Judged By the Company He Bent on a band of dogs spent a busy morning harassing a farmer's Then they went off to romp in a nearby where they were soon joined by a friendly the farmer decided to teach the marauders a He took his went to the and shot into the the bullet struck down the only innocent one of the lot the When the collie's owner sued for the farmer argued that It was the dog's own fault for getting mixed up with But the court was not impressed and held the farmer The judge said that an innocent dog should not be condemned Just because he gets into bad May You Collect Damages If You Fall Off the Gangplank of a A ladies' auxiliary hired a steamboat and went on an all-day At the end of the the gangplank was lowered and the ladies began marching down kj the gangplank was very had no and was tilted at a Sure one of the ladies lost her footing and splashed Into the She was speedily fished out safe and but ready for She sued the steamship company for and the court granted her The Judge said as a public th ship should have provided a safer gangplank for its A woman member of a country church was a pretty good After considerable coaxing by her she agreed to play the organ every Sunday Nothing was said about a After about two the woman decided that she was' entitled to some compensation for her work and she filed suit against the church for two years' the court turned down her The judge said that the woman's playing was presumed to be labor of |