Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-19


ing, when death ensues, the county
where such lynching takes place shall
without regard to the conduct of the
officers, be liable in exemplary dam
ages OF not less than $4,000, to the
legal representatives of the person
lynched; provided, further, that any
county against which a Judgment has
been obtained for damages in any case
OF lynching, shall have the right to
recover the amount of said Judgment
from the parties engaged in said
lynching in any court of competent
jurisdiction.
Judge Minor of the law and equity
court of Richmond, Va, has forbidden
the clerks Of the court to give the
newspaper reporters any information
IN regard to any divorce case.
Beside the United States, the fol-
lowing countries have bankruptcy
laws: Germany, Great Britain, Aus
tria-Hungary. Russia, France, Bel
GUM, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway
Sweden, Turkey Spain Portugal,
Mexico, Brazil. According to the
Russian system, single creditor is
able to keep the bankrupt in jail IN
til the debt is satisfied.
An English doctor who was recently
arrested for riding bicycle on a side
walk, was acquitted because of an
old law giving to doctors the right to
take the shortest routs when going
to attend an urgent case.
James c. Carter of the New York
bar thus defes law: Law is that
body of rules for the regulation of hui
man conduct which is enforced by the
state, and which embodies as much Of
the attribute of justice as each par
ticular society of men is able to COM
prehend and willing to apply to hui
man affairs"
It is said that the judges Of the SUI
preme and superior courts of the state
of Connecticut will adopt the judicial
robes. The sheriffs and deputies are
also to wear uniforms while on duty.
II has lately been held that inter-
lineation in a note does not raise a
presumption of fraudulent or unau-
thOriZed alteration.
AS the appointment of "a clerical
high sheriff" of the county of Here
ford, in the person of Rev. A. w. Fos-
ter, has created much interest in the
columns of the lay press, it may be
worthy of note that there is nothing
abnormal in the discharge by a cleric
OF the duties of the Office of sheriff
Thus SO late as last year a clergyman,
Rev. Sir Charles Ralph Fetherston, a
Dorsetshire vicar, was high sheriff Of
the county of Longford, in which his
property is situated. mo one" writes
Blackstone, can be exempt from this
office except by act of parliament or
letters patent, though on the other
hand, there are several causes of dis
ability, such as outlawry or the like
stephens Blackstone, H., p. $3.50. The
office of high sheriff may indeed be
executed by woman. Thus Anne,
Countess of Pembroke, actually ex-
ercised the office in person, and at the
assizes at Appleby sat with the Judge
on the bench.-Law Times Gondon).
RObb & Steele is the firm name Of
two Indiana law gers.
The Chicago Law Journal is author
ity for the statement that a jury re-
Gently returned this verdict: THAT the
deceased came to his death by trying
90 light his pipe with an electric light,
which cans be done successfully"
Lord Chief Justice Russell has been
elected president of the Society Of
Comparative Legislation and has ac-
cepted the office.
General Brooke has refused permits
sion for American lawyers to practice
law in Havana unless they have OBJ
tanned degrees from the University of
Havana, according to law.
The law Of street cars and the rights
Of pedestrians was touched upon in a
recent New York case in which the
court said: F'It must be admitted that
the rights of cars in their tracks upon
the street are superior to the rights OF
anybody going along the street or
crossing it elsewhere than at a cross
ing, but this does not mean that they
have the sole or exclusive right to the
use of shat portion of the street upon
which their tracks are laid"
The New York court of appeals has
lately decided that any stakeholder Of
a corporation has a right to examine
the books. 1t makes no difference
whether he owns a large or small
number of shares.
A statute which imposes a new pun
ishment, but not more severe ore
than was imposed by the Old statute,
not ex post facto.
The longest English state trial was
that of Warren Hastings for corrupt
practices while governor of India.
This trial lasted more than seven
years.
According to the latest decision, it
is perfectly lawful for a resident of
South Carolina to go over into North
Carolina or Georgia and there buy
whisky for his personal use and re-
turn again to South Carolina with the
whisky.
bill which imposes a tax on every one
except newspaper correspondents.
Stillman K. Wightman Of New York
city, who recently died at the age OF
81, continued the practice Of law until
4 few months before his death. It Is
said that he was the oldest practicing
awyer in the country. He began his
professional career in Connecticut, and
t was through his fundamentally
hat the law abolishing Imprisonment
or debt was passed in that state,