Show THE READERS COURTROOM rude friend better than none ay wy will bernard could a person be fined just for being rude A youth was working on a construction st lob job one afternoon when he suddenly felt sick his cousin who happened to be working with him started to walk the young man toward his house when the youth faltered faltered the cousin grabbed his hand and hall half dragged him along the sidewalk until they got home after the young man recovered he had his cousin arrested tor for handling bandling him so rudely however the court refused to find the cousin guilty even though he was not as gentle as one more humane and tender might have been the judge said rudeness alone was not a crime so long as there was no intent to injure at the set hour a condemned murderer was strapped into the chair and the current was turned on to astonishment ahe lh man survived it seems that something had gone wrong with the electrical mechanism when prison officials announced their intention t to try again the convict appealed to the united states supreme court he claimed that going through the same ordeal twice was a cruel and unusual punishment and was unconstitutional however the court refused the mans plea A man noticed that the 75 foot pine tree on his neighbors front lawn had become badly decayed fearful ot of trouble he asked the neighbor to cut the tree down but the neighbor refused saying its not my responsibility I 1 plant it it was there when I 1 moved in one day during a windstorm the tree toppled down on to the first mans house luckily no one was hurt but the damage to the building amounted to 1000 the neighbor disclaimed liability but a court ordered him to toot foot the bill 0 0 0 Is it unlawful to enjoy somebody alses troubles A petty politician had a longstanding grudge against a certain city clerk one day the clerk got into an argument with two other employees and the men gave him a sound thrashing As it happened the politician witnessed the whole thing and enjoyed it immensely later the clerk tried to collect damages not only from rom the two men but also from rom the politician on the ground that he had approved the attack however the court ruled that the politician was not liable tor for anything said the judge an onlooker responsible for or a beating just because in his bis heart he is secretly pleased to see it happen he is only cespon i sible when he incites or aids in its I 1 commission |