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Show . THE READER'S COURTROOM . No Crime to Plead for Kisses By Will Bernard, LL.B Is it a Crime to Pester A Woman For a Kiss? A bachelor got a little drunk one night, and decided to pay a visit to a certain young widow friend. As she opened the door, he asked for a kiss. She refused. He stepped inside in-side and repeated his request. Again she said no. Then he got down en his knees, beside her - chair, and begged for a kiss. She said na once more, and moved to the cuch. He followed her there, A man sued his wife for divorce on grounds of adultery. At the trial, a private detective took the witness stand and testified as to the wife's misconduct. But he didn't stop there. He added that he had discovered, dis-covered, in the course of his investigation, in-vestigation, that the husband was guilty of the same thing! The court thereupon refused to grant a divorce di-vorce to either party, saying: "The divorce laws were intended for the relief of injured innocence not to encourage persons of loose morals to live in scandalous way." Does the Law Ever Encourage "Back Seat Driving?" A man took an out-of-town friend for a ride one Sunday morning to show him the sights of the city-Soon city-Soon they came to a busy intersection. intersec-tion. The motorist, not noticing the red signal on the corner, kept right on driving at full speed. His passenger realized the situation, asked again, and was turned down agaui. Then they returned t the chair and went through the same routine. In despair at last, the man left. The widow later had him arrested ar-rested an an assault charge, but the court found him hot guilty. Pointing out that the poor fellow hadn't even touched the woman, the judge decided that he had already al-ready been punished enoughl A broker went to the barber shop one morning to get a shave and a haircut. During the shave, the barber bar-ber inflicted a nasty nick on the man's Adam's apple. Later the man developed a case of barber's Itch, and filed suit for damages. At the trial, one of the barber's employees em-ployees admitted that razors were not always sterilized between shave. Th c u r t thereupon granted the broker's claim. The judge said that while occasional cuts might be unavoidable, the lack of sanitation wasn't but didn't say a word. Sure enough, the car crashed into another automobile auto-mobile that ' was just emerging from the side street. The friend was injured in the collision, and later sued his host for damages on grounds of careless driving. However, How-ever, the court ruled that the friend had been equally at fault for not speaking up. The judge said that, under the circumstances, a little "back seat driving" was definitely called for! |