Show THE READERS COURTROOM T hem no F mercy A gudme by will bernard should a judge lot let sympathy affect his decisions A man walked into a bank one day with a suitcase full 0 of dyna t elte and demanded in cash when the money forthcoming he dropped the bag and blow blew up the bank A customer was painfully injured in the blast and later sued the bank for damages however the aburt denied the mans claim on the ground that there was no evidence of negligence on the part of the bank said the judge it is impossible to consider this mans injury without profound prof ouid sympathy but sympathy although altho uRh one of the noblest sentiments of our nature has no place in the administration of law onn of the most popular gadgets 9 at a certain amusement park was a punching bag to test your strength one saturday morning a husky 18 year old boy put in a penny roundup woun dup and swung with all his might the bag snapped back so fast and so hard bard that it broke the youths aral arm when he sued the owner of the park for damages the latter protested that customers have to watch out for themselves but the court disagreed and granted the young m mans claim or damages A college student went to a drug store one morning and a asked the druggist to inject a strong cathartic into a chocolate bonbon bon bon the druggist cheerfully compiled then tho the student gave the candy to a friend just for fun unfortunately tho the friend appreciate the joke he got mad at the student but he got twice as mad at the druggist in fact ho he had the druggist arrested on a charge of assault and battery the druggist said ifo he had followed instructions but the court hold held him guilty if you find something and know whose it is must you return retura it the first customer of the day in a certain butcher shop was a woman named mrs johnson just after the she left the store the butcher butche r spied a wallet on the floor ills his helper exclaimed that must be mrs mris johnsons but the butcher just put the wallet in his bis pocket and sold said nothing about it later mrs johnson found out what had happened and had the butcher arrested tor for theft lie he protested that he be held for theft since he actually taken the wallet but had merely found at it however the court decided that his conduct amounted to just about the same saine tiling and found mm guilty as charged |