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Show , THE READER'S COURTROOM . Bull in a China Shop Honest! By Will Bernard, LLB. If a Bull Gets Loose in a China Shop, Must the Bull's Owner Pay For the Damage? A farmer was leading his prize bull through a village street one morning when the usually placid beast suddenly broke loose. Spying Spy-ing an open door, he charged right through and found himself in (of all places!) a china shop. The farmer and the storekeeper did A railroad worker picked up a bad case of poison ivy, while clearing clear-ing underbrush away from 1 the tracks. He was laid up for several weeks and later filed a claim for workmen's compensation. The company protested: "The compensation compen-sation law protects against accidents, acci-dents, but not against diseases and poison ivy is a disease." However, How-ever, the court gave the worker a substantial award. The judge said that, although poison ivy develops as a disease, it begins with an accident. ac-cident. Is it Dangerous To Contradict a Judge? A man was summoned before a judge in connection with a probe of local gangsterism. When the judge made a remark about the course of the inquiry, the man said: "Your Honor, your comment is so utterly wrong that I'm surprised sur-prised you would even say such a thing." The judge was furious at their best to shoo the animal out. but it took them 45 hectic minutes to accomplish the task. By that time the shop was a shambles, and the merchant later sued the farmer for the damage done. But the court held the farmer not liable. The judge said that the bull's action was so sudden and unexpected that the farmer could not have prevented it. . A man suffered a broken leg and Internal injuries in a bus crash, and sued the bus company for damages. Among other things, he demanded "the market price of the pain I have suffered that is, the amount of money it would take to hire someone to go through the same agony." However, the court ruled out his demand on the ground that there is no market price on pain. Limiting the man's claim to "reasonable compensation," the judge said it would take a fabulous .amount to hire a volunteer. this impudence, and sentenced the man to five days in jail for "contempt "con-tempt of court." But when the matter was appealed, the upper court decided that the judge had been altogether too sensitive and cancelled the sentence. The higher court said that a person has a perfect per-fect right to voice his disagreement disagree-ment with a judge, so long as he does it in a respectful manner. |