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Show I -THE READER'S COURTROOM , Wife Support - Double Trouble By Will Bernard, LL.B. 1 May a Man be Forced To Support Two Wives At the Same Time? A young couple were divorced, and the wife was granted a monthly sum as alimony. After a few years, the man remarried. Finding it difficult dif-ficult to support both wives, he asked the court to relieve him of his alimony payments. However, May a Chef Collect Compensation if Assaulted By the Dishwasher? During the breakfast rush, a restaurant chef became annoyed by a mounting stack of dirty dishes. He told the dishwasher to move them out of his way, but the latter was slow to comply. When the chef grew more insistent, the dishwasher became very angry and finally gave his tormentor a jdlting uppercut to the jaw. The chef was injured, and put in a claim for workmen's compensation. com-pensation. At the hearing the restaurant res-taurant owner opposed the claim, saying that the dispute was purely a personal matter between the two employees. But the court granted the chef an award. Do Barmaids Have the Same Rights as Bartenders? The owner of a barroom decided to economize by having his wife help him at the bar. As it happened, hap-pened, there was a local law prohibiting pro-hibiting the employment of women to serve liquor. Somebody reported the matter to the police and the man was arrested. At the trial, he when it appeared that the first wife had no other source of income, the court ruled that 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 pri-vate hospital on the outskirts of town. One night the man's nurse fell asleep on the job, and the delirious deliri-ous patient wandered out into the fields. He finally was picked up at a farmhouse but not until he had passed the dread disease on to the farmer. After the farmer had recovered, re-covered, he sued the hospital for damages. The hospital protested that it wasn't responsible for the acts of a delirious patient, but the court disagreed and granted the farmer's claim. The judge said the hospital was just as much to blame as a circus would be for letting a vicious animal loose on the streetsl insisted that the law was unconstitutional uncon-stitutional because it discriminated against women for no good reason. If men can serve whiskey, he demanded, de-manded, why can't women? But the court saw things differently and found the man guilty as charged. The judge pointed out that the law was designed to prevent "the hilarity hilar-ity and disturbance so often caused by the combination of wine, women, and song!" |