Show STOLEN KISSES ARE RATED AT rich man assessed for caressing nephews wife columbia S C when a wealthy man I 1 kisses the wife of his n nephew ephew against her will the young woman Is entitled to receive in cash that Is if the kissing occurs la in south carolina mrs ethel kirven pretty young wife of a prominent darlington county man has just beet been awarded that amount as a result of a decision by the state supreme court which john K kirven her bus bands uncle had bad appealed after the young woman had been awarded that sum by a jury in a tower lower court mrs kirven alleged that she was greatly humiliated shocked frightened and unnerved by the incident and she sued her husbands tincle tor for on two occasions mrs kirven charged in her complaint her bus h Is bands wealthy uncle without warn ing assaulted and rudely laid hands upon tier her and ruthlessly over her protest and before she could tear herself away from him took liber ties with her person by kissing nei and taking her in his arms and that he made improper proposals pj to her kirven who Is well known in south carolina denied the accas a rions and the trial in a naion county count court was orie one of the most sensational to in the history ot of the county mrs kirven a comely young ma tron was the principal witness against her husbands uncle kirven contended that he had at al waa 11 admired and respected the plaintiff and that he lid did not intend his actions to be construe construed ed os as improper owing to the prominence of the two principals the case attracted statewide state wide attention the opinion in the case was writ ten by acting associate justice C T graydon A dissen dissenting opinion was nas n as written by alsot associate late justice thomas H P cochran who pointed out three errors fillet chief justice eugene blease also dissented agreeing with justice cochran that thai the lie presiding judge erred when he be charged the darling ton county jury in effect that it was against the law in this state for a 0 ann to anress a woman CHAMPION CANNER P wr 1 I 1 4 V A mrs cloward smalley nilley ol 01 Ulli wj ill alio ho ais nas presented ith a cur cup at tile the cook conk county fair fiill tit nl the chi hi cago as the lie worlds bimm 1 pion canner |