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Show I THE READER'S COURTROOM , Honor the Advice of Your Father By Will Bernard, LL.B I May a Father Mix into the Affairs Of His Married Daughter? Despite parental objections, a coed co-ed raa off with a garage mechanic and gat married. She soon found out that married life wasn't as pleasant as she had expected, and in three weeks she had moved back home. Her husband thereupon sued her father for alienation of affec- Ouster proceedings were filed against a certain judge, on grounds of "habitual drunkenness." It seems that His Honor would go on an all-day spree once a month, and often had to be helped home. At the hearing he said his drinking wasn't "habitual" because he often stayed sober for weeks at a time I But the court ruled that he wasn't fit for his job. The court said that drunkenness is a habit when it happens hap-pens this often even though there may be intervals of sobriety! May You Denounce An Auto Dealer For "Selling Lemons"? A woman bought a ca from a dealer. Although the car worked all right, she soon decided that she didn't like it. One morning, the woman hung several lemons on the sides of the vehicle, along with signs warning the public . against buying other "lemons" from this particular dealer. Soon the man 1 )J" Uons, claiming that he had talked the girl into believing she had made a mistake. But the court refused re-fused to hold the father liable. The judge said that parents have a right to "butt into" their daughter's marriage, if they do so sincerely out ef love for their child, not hate for her husband. "From whom should a girl seek advice," exclaimed ex-claimed His Heaor, "if net from her owa parents?" A lS-yoar-oU boy was home alone one day when a eeuple of his buddies bud-dies dropped ia. At their suggestion, sugges-tion, he took his father's pistol front a drawer, got a bullet from the sbelf, aad tried to load the gun. Suddenly it went off hitting one of his friends in the leg. A juvenile court later committed hur as a "delinquent," "de-linquent," but the state supreme court reversed the order. The higher high-er court ruled that a boy doesn't became be-came "delinquent" just because he is involved in an unfortunate accident. tUed suit for a stop-order. At the hearing the woman insisted that she couldn't be prevented from speaking her mind, but the court ordered her to cease her campaign. While admitting some judicial disagreement dis-agreement on the point. His Honor decided that he- should stop the woman's deliberate attack on the dealer's business. |
