| Show THE READERS COURTROOM wife support double trouble by will bernard may a man be forced to support two wives at the some same time A young couple were divorced and the wife was granted a monthly sum as alimony after a few years the man remarried finding it difficult to support both wives he asked the court to relieve him of his alimony payments however k when it appeared that th the first wife had bad no other source of income the court ruled that the husband must continue making the payment the judge said A man may not shun the marital obligations undertaken in one relationship by contracting ot hersl Is a hospital to blame for letting a smallpox patient escape A man caught smallpox and was confined to a special wing of a private hospital on the outskirts of town one night the mans nurse fell asleep on the job and the delirious patient wandered out into the fields he finally was picked up at a farmhouse but not until he had passed the dread disease on to the farmer after the farmer had recovered he sued the hospital for damages the hospital protested that it responsible for the acts of a delirious patient but the court disagreed and granted the farmers claim the judge said the hospital was just as much to blame as a circus would be tor for letting a vicious animal loose on the street sl may a chef collect compensation if assaulted by the dishwasher during the breakfast rush a restaurant chef became annoyed by a mounting stack 0 of dirty dishes aishe S he told the dishwasher to move them out ot of his way but the latter was slow to comply when the chet chef grew more insistent the dishwasher became very angry and finally gave his tormentor a jolting uppercut to the jaw the chef was injured and put in a claim for or workmen work mens 3 compensation pensa tion at the hearing the restaurant owner opposed the claim saying that the dispute was purely a personal matter between the two employees but the court granted the chef an award do barmaids Bar maids hoye have the some same rights as bartenders the owner 0 of a barroom decided to economize by having his wife help him at the bar As it happened there was a local law prohibiting hi the employment of women to serve liquor somebody reported the matter to the police and the man was arrested at the trial he i 41 W insisted that the law was unconstitutional because it discriminated against women tor for no good reason it if men can serve whiskey he demanded why cant women but the court saw things differently and found the mar man guilty as charged the judge pointed out that the law was designed to prevent the hi hilarity lar and disturbance so often caused by the combination ot of wine women and songie ong I 1 |
