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Show . THE READERS COURTROOM . . Mashed Finger a Bowling Hazard By Will Bernard, LLB If a Bowler Gets His Fingers Pinched, May He Collect Damages? Three young men went to a bowling bowl-ing alley and started to roll a game. Halfway through the contest, one youth decided he would like to use a lighter ball. - He found one, plugged in his fingers, and started to lift it out of the rack. Just then another ball, returning from the Must a Judge Grant a Divorce Even if He Thinks There is Hope For a Reconciliation? ' A man deserted his wife and she sued him for divorce. At the trial the man showed up and announced that he was "a changed man." He assured the judge that time would soon bring about a reconciliation. However, when the wife proved adamant, the judge awarded her a decree. His Honor said that, even if he thought there might be a reconciliation, re-conciliation, he had to grant the wife's demand anyhow. He explained ex-plained that, once she had proven her case for a divorce, he had to give it to her. If Your Canary Escapes, Does it Still "Belong" to You? A bachelor had a tame canary named "Sweetie." One day the bird escaped from its cage and fluttered flut-tered to the street. There an alert neighbor caught it, took it into his house, and stubbornly refused to alley, smacked into the row and pinched the youth's finger. The injury in-jury was so severe that he later filed a damage suit against the proprietor. However, the court denied de-nied his claim. The judge figured that, since this kind of accident was a normal hazard of the game, the proprietor should not be held responsible for ft. A widow lived with her two grown daughters, next door to an auto mechanic. One evening the auto mechanic got drunk, and then went for a walk down the block. When he encountered the widow on the sidewalk, he burst into a torrent of abuse accusing her and her daughters of immoral conduct. The next day the widow filed suit for slander. The mechanic pleaded that he had been too drunk to realize what he was saying, but the court held him liable. The judge said that slander Is still slander! give it back. But when the bachelor sued, the court ordered the neighbor neigh-bor to restore the canary to its original owner. The judge figured that a creature tame as "Sweetie" should not be considered fair fame for the public just because it happens hap-pens to escape momentarily from its owner's control. |