Show THE READERS COURTROOM wife support double trouble by will bernard way may a man bo be forced to support two wives at the same time A young couple were divorced and the wife was granted a monthly xum bum as an alimony after a n few years the man remarried fining it difficult to support both wives ho he asked the court to relieve him of his alimony payments however h when it appeared that the first wife had no other source burco of income the court ruled that tho the husband must continue making the payment the judge said A man may not shun the marital obligations undertaken in one relationship by contracting others Is a hospital to blame for letting a smallpox patient escape A man caught smallpox and was confined to a special wing of a private hospital on the outskirts of town one night the mans nurse fell asleep on the job and the delirious patient wandered out into the fields lie he finally was picked up at a farmhouse but not until he ha had passed the afie dread disease on to the farmer after the former farmer had re covered he sued the hospital for or damages the hospital protested that it responsible for the acts of a delirious patient but the court disagreed and granted the farmers fan ners claim the judge said the hospital was waa just as much buchl to blame as a 4 circus ul d bo be tor for letting a vicious animal loo seon n the street treet sl may mal a chef collect com compensation it if assaulted sensation by y tho e dishwasher during tho the breakfast rush a restaurant chef became annoyed by a mounting stack of dirty dishes ho told the dishwasher dish washer to I 1 nove move themous the them mout out of his fils way but the tha latter was slow to comply when the thethel chef grew more insistent the dishwasher became very angry and finally gave ills ilia tormentor a jolting uppercut to the tha jaw japthe tha chel chef was injured and put in a claim for work mens compensation pensa tion at the hearing the restaurant owner opposed too the claim saying that thai the dispute was purely 1 99 a personal matter between the two employees but the court granted the chef an award 0 0 do barmaids Bar maids hoye have tho rights as bartenders the owner of a barroom decided to economize by having his wife help him at the bar As it happened there was a local law prohibiting hi the employment of wo women men to serve liquor somebody reported the matter matte r to the police and the man was arrested at the trial he or nd V N insisted that the law was ancon because it discriminated against women for no good reason it if men can serve whiskey he demanded why cant women buethe but the court saw things gs differently and found tho the man guilty as charged the judge pointed out that the law was designed to prevent the tha hilarity and disturbance so BO often caused by the combination of wine women and |