Show THE READERS ERS COURTROOM no control conf rol over berth by will bernard Is tha railroad liable if your berth ready when you want it A woman traveller decided to go to sleep early k and ordered the porter to make up her berth at once ile ho said ho he would but not until he ha hod had brought drinks to another passenger the woman angrily summoned the conductor tills this Is i a sleeping par she exclaimed and sleeping comes fIr stIll but the conductor backed up tho the porter in a fury the woman stalked into the club car folded her arms and sat there all night longi long I 1 later she sued the railroad for or damages but the court turned down her hear claim the judge said a passenger la Is entitled to have her berth made up in a reasonable timeout time but not instantaneously Instantaneous lyl I 1 may Pol policemen icamen use illegal means fa for r legal Lega lErias ends two detectives picked up a burglary suspect and took him into a special room for questioning when tho man refused to confess the officers slapped him punched him beat him with a rubber rubbe rhobe hose at last covered ath th welts 1 l ts and black and blue marks the prisoner confessed when tho the story leaked out cut the two detectives were arrested on charges of as asnault Lault they protested that they had merely been trying to get at thi the e truth but tho the court sent them both to jail to meditate upon their sins the ludge judge said while the law protects police officers in the proper discharge of their duties it must at the same ame time the individual from cruel and boufal treatment by the police 1 should a one hour jail sentence be carried out As strictly As a longer term A teacher was convicted ot of bigamy Ilo however wever because of certain extenuating circumstances the judge gave him a sentence of exactly ono one hour in baill after the sentence was pronounced the parties sat around the courtroom for awhile having a friendly bull session finally the deputy walked over to take the defendant eway the man pointed at hla his watch and cried bleyl my hour Is up alrea dyl dyll loudly his lawyer demanded that the mara man should be ba released at once but the judge was not convinced and turned down the request ire he ruled that the one hour sentence would start running only itter the man was actually locked up behind bars should a doctor bo be paid for taking care of friends A schoolboy broke his arm arin and was wai treated by a doctor who w hoaas was the ahe father of one of his school enate s later the doctor sent a bill to lo the boys father but it was never paid at last the doctor tiled filed suit for his money at the trial the defendant protested the ne only only reason we used this particular i doctor was wa that ny my son and his son were friends I 1 took it tor for granted that he charge for his services but the court disagreed and ordered the tha doctor paid in full the judge said that arjen friendship ship Is no reason for deprie inga ing V doctora doe j of just compensation c or his bis libbia labors r |