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Show Little Chats on Public Notice AN INHERENT RIGHT Law suits often hinge upon oddities In some phase of human relations. In another state not long ago a woman sued a physician phy-sician for $10,000 for an alleged breach of contract. Her complaint was that he failed to deliver her baby. It seems, according to her story, that he attended her during the months of her pregnancy. She understood that he would be with her when the baby came. But In her suit she charged that he did not appear at the hospital until Xier trie baby haj been delivered. deliv-ered. The issue here involved the law of contracts, which lr a separate sep-arate branch of the law. The superior su-perior court justice sitting In on the -case continued it. This meant that It could not go to trial until later and the issue could not be settled until later, unless the suit was withdrawn or settlement was made out of any event, certain elements are basic to any lawsuit. The person or persons sued have a right to know who Is suing them and for what. Without going Into all of the details, they are entitled en-titled also to their so-called day in court, that is, the right to be heard. The basic right to be put on notice in court has its parallel in public notices or legal advertising adver-tising as carried in newspapers. They, too are designed to put interested parties on notice and enable them to protect their rights. Publishing such notices is a service rendered by virtually all hnna firlo nnurcn.no e pl jl general circulation. And this isj provided for by law In all the states. j |