Show THE READERS ADERS COURTROOM can t collect bargain damages ay will bernard may a shopper collect damages if knocked down at a bargain sale 4 A dry goods store ran a r donth brith en end d sale ale on bed linen and got results tar far exceeding iti ih fondest hopes A huge huga crowd gathered and began milling around women screamed creamed fainted and e even v e a climbed up on onto the comi ferl teil dur ing the excitement one housewife was knocked down a stairway though not badly hurt the she determined to sue the store for damages she claimed that the company should hava have taken special measures to prevent tola this kind of accident however tho the court rejected her cult alt the tha judge pointed out that the tore store had bad no reason to expect such a violent response to the sal salet of 4 may a child collect damages if hurt in a Rey revolving door A young boy suffered a sprained wrist when he be caught it in the re evolving door of a hotel his parents sued the management on on the we boys behalf claiming that such a door was because it was so sa tempting to children they insisted aisted that the hotel ought to have a guard posted by thedoor the door and to havo have it locked clocked when the guard I 1 14 gasn wasn i there I 1 however lo wever th the a court rejected iced the judge i said aid it fair to the hotel Is a fire engine driver drayer liable for reckless driving on the way to a lre fire a fire engine side sideswiped swiped a parked taxicab the cabbie was waa injured a and nd later sued tho the tire fire engine driver tor for damages the fireman protested that he was waa not personally cespon sible for or something that happened in the course of his urgent public duty however the court ruled that was no excuse angheld and held him liable for or reckless driving Is co a beekeeper responsible if his dees bees attack a mule A farmer set up a beehive alongside his back fence right close to the favorite grazing spot of his neighbors mule one hot day the tha bees cea lit out after the mule and stung him so badly that he died when the ne neighbor sued cued for or the value of the beast the farmer protested that he was not to blame 9 for what his bees had done how ever when ho he admitted that the same bees had once attacked his own mule too the court I 1 hold him responsible the judge said that since the farmer know knew his bees were vera vicious he should not have stationed them so close to the iha neighbors animal |