Show THE READERS COURTROOM rude friend better than none by will bernard could a person be fined just for being rude A youth was working on a con st ruction job one afternoon when he suddenly felt sick ilia his cousin who happened to be working with 4 V him started to walk the young man toward his house houie when the youth T talt altered faltered ered the cousin grabbed his bit hand and halt half dragged him along 1 the sidewalk until they got home alter after the young man recovered he had bad his cousin arrested for handling him so BO rudely Ilo Howey weyer cr the 5 6 court refused to tind find the cousin 1 guilty even though he was not as i gentle a sw one more humane and tender might have been the judge said rudeness alone was not a cri meso long as 11 there was wall no intent to injure at the set hour a condemned murderer was wa strapped into the chair and the current was wa turned on to astonishment the man survived survive dt it seems that something had gone wrong with the electrical mechanism when prison officials announced their intention to try again the convict appealed to the united states supreme court lie he claimed that going through the same ordeal twice was a cruel and unusual punishment and was unconstitutional however the court refused the mans pica A roan man noticed that the 75 foot pine tree on his hi neighbors front lawn had become badly de decayed coyed fearful of trouble he asked the neighbor to cut the tree down but the neighbor refused saying its not my responsibility I 1 plant it it was wag there when I 1 moved binl one day during a windstorm the tree toppled down on to the first mans house luckily no one was hurt but the dama damage geto to the building amounted to 1000 the neighbor disclaimed liability but a bour court t ordered him to toot oot the bill 0 0 0 is it unlawful to enjoy somebody Ws A petty politician had a longstanding grudge against a certain city clerk ono one day the clerk got into on i argument with two other employees and the men gave eave him a sound thrashing As it happened the me politician witnessed the w whole hole thing and enjoyed it immensely later the clerk tried to collect damage snot only from tho the two men but also from the politician on the ground that he had bad lap approved the attack however the court ruled that the politician was not liable for anything said paid the judie judge an onlooker responsible for a beating just because in his heart he Is secretly pleased cotee to see it happen he is only responsible when he be incites or aids aid in its commission 11 |