| Show THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM I He Gave This Girl a aBy Bad Time By Will Bernard Is a Passenger to Blame For For- Taking the Drivers Driver's Mind Off His Driving A salesman took a coed for a aride aride aride ride one evening As the hour grew late the girl asked what time It was The man put his wrist under the dim dashboard light and peered down at his watch Meanwhile Meanwhile Meanwhile Mean Mean- while the car kept kepton on going until going until it crashed into a fire hydrant The girl was Injured and sued the thet I t salesman for damages At the trial I he be argued that the accident never Would have happened if it she hadn't asked me for the time But the court found nothing wrong in the girls girl's question and granted her claim The judge said that when a driver Is asked what time it Is he shouldn't forget that he is still at atthe atthe atthe the wheel I S S Must a Woman Welcome Her Law in Into The Family Home Evicted from their apartment a ayoung ayoung ayoung young couple decided to m move ve in with the husbands husband's parents When they got there his mother met them sternly at the door You are she said to her welcome son but Iut you you to to the daught daughter in r in can can g go som somewhere where else The youth stay stayed d his wife left left ant and that was the beginning of the ent end of their marriage Later the girl gir for breakIng breaking breaking break break- sued the mother law Ing up the marriage but the cour court rejected her claim The judge said there is no law requiring parents parent to treat their law daughter a awell ns as nsw w well as they treat their own son Does Docs oes a Fisherman Have lave Any Claim to The One that Got Away A fisherman captured a sea lion llon and decided to sell it for exhibition purposes But one morning the sea lion Ion slipped out of captivity and vanished into the ocean A year later ater the fisherman was amazed to see the same creature on exhibition in a nearby circus He promptly sued the circus to get the sea lion back insisting it it still belonged to him At the trial it was brought out that the creature had been caught two weeks after its escape and and 70 miles mUes n away way The court thereupon turned down the fisherman's fishermans fishermans fisherman's fishermans fisherman's fisher fisher- mans man's claim saying that his captor captor captor cap cap- tor obviously had left him for good S S S If You Get a Shock From an X-Ray X Machine May You Collect Damages A man went to a laboratory to have his teeth X While the machine was turned on an electric electric elec elec- shock suddenly hit the mans man's knee and went down to his his his' foot Injured by the current he filed a damage suit against the doctor who had made the X At the trial It appeared that no one could figure figure fig fig- ure out the cause of the mishap The machine was in good order order- and the doctor had operated It Inthe Inthe in inthe the proper manner The court therefore therefore therefore there there- fore denied the mans man's claim The judge said that In a profession which uses such dangerous things as electricity radium scalpels anc and poisons accidents will |
