Show THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM COURTROOM- 11 Its It's s a Transparent Mistake By Will Bernard LL.B. LL.B.- Is a 0 Shopper to Blame If He Mistakes a 0 Window For the Door The front of a paint store was mostly plate glass including glass including the doors One sunny day a customer I walked in bought some paint and J started out But in a moment of confusion contusion he aimed in the wrong direction direction and and didn't stop until he had put one foot right through a plate glass window I When the store A y yI I I t tr r a sued him for damages the customer custom e er eF protested that he had been beeD confused confused con con- fused by all that glass and all that sunlight However the court rejected rejected rejected re re- re- re this excuse excise and held the man liable for the value of ot the window The judge said that if It a person was able to find his way into the store he ought to be able to find his way out A school high-school student riding a bicycle on a sidewalk struck a pedestrian from behind and knocked him down The pedestrian later brought an assault and battery action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion against the youth At the trial the student argued that while he might have been a little careless he wasn't guilty of ot assault and battery battery bat bat- tery because the accident was not intentional However when the judge learned that the sidewalk was no less than 14 feet teet wide he decided that the youth had Indeed committed an assault and battery I A man checked his suitcase at a depot parcel room receiving for forit forit it a numbered claim ticket He I didn't bother to read the ticket ticket- and so 80 didn't see the clause that in is case of loss the check room company was not liable for more than 10 Sure enough the suitcase suitcase suit suit- case vanished When the man sued for the the value of the contents the the company pointed to the 10 limitation clause on the ticket But the court ruled that the man was entitled to full reimbursement for his loss 00 Is it Trespassing To Visit Someone Without an Invitation A farmers farmer's son decided to pay a visit to a neighboring farmer As the youth pushed his way through a field of tall corn the neighbor heard him coming coming but but couldn't see him Deciding the intruder was a fox tox the neighbor hastily grabbed I Ia a shotgun and fired hitting the ther theP P r s youth In the leg Later sued for damages the neighbor insisted that the young man was an uninvited trespasser and therefore had no kick coming However the court disagreed and awarded damages damages damages dam dam- ages to the injured youth The judge said he was not a trespasser trespass trespass- er because there exists among farm folk tolk as well as among others an au Implied invitation to visit each other |