Show THE READERS COURTROOM unintentional mistake imi li stake no nh crime I 1 by a will bernard if you take somebody alses gloves by mistake aro you I 1 technically a thief after seeing her husband off at a depot st a woman noticed a pair of gloves tying lying on an a bench mistakenly thinking they were her husbands she took them horne home the next neat morning she saw a loat and found ad in the newspaper describing tho gloves she sha bad picked L tj she thereupon returned them to the th owner now mow it so happened that the tha owner was waa a very crotchety individual instead of being grateful he had the woman arrested on a parga charge of stealing the man insisted that technically speaking anybody who takes someone elsea property is a thief but the court felt otherwise and lound found the woman not guilty of the charge the judge adge said that her crime lacked one necessary element criminal intent one warm sunday morning a man took hla his three year old son for a ride suddenly a bumblebee flow flew la in through the window while tie the t father turned i to locate the invader the seared scared youngster grabbed tho the wheel and jerked it the car thus neglected ran over ever the curb and hit a woman standing on the side W walls jaik she later sued the driver tor for di damages mages he tried to blame eve everything ry on the bee but the tha court rul ruled edtha that t he must pay the worn ans claim the judge felt that the entrance of ct we tha beo was wall no excuse if a 0 man dies do domis his obligations dio die too A wealthy broker decided to alv gt his wife a custom built car tailored to suit her taste ile he placed tho the order at a price of but shortly before the gift was delivered e the broker was killed in a plano piano cr crash ash the tha execl executors tors of ids hla estate flatly refused to the car arguing that the mans death made it impossible tocarra to carry out the contract however tho the court disagreed and ordered the auto maker paid in full the judge pointed out that nil all the broker had bad contracted contract edio io do was to pay and his executors could do that just as wallas will as hot acl 8 s must you be considerate of your neighbors likes an and dislikes A young couple who li lived vedon on the outskirts 0 of town kept a small hen house tn in their back yard As it happened the tha lady who lived next door was a very nervous person the dolse and smell from the hens hena bothered bother edher her so much that she finally went to court for a stop order 16 however the couet turned down do her request the Tha judas judge said the hen house was perfectly lawful in thi that district so 50 long Rs as it offensive a to ordinary folk ills his honor added that a homeowner need not curb his own activities just because he ha happens to have neigh ft st bor who li Is ultra sensitive |