Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-11
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]: IMPORTANT DECISIONS.


LOTTERTES-CITY ORDINANCES.
San Francisco has u city and county
ordinance making II unlawful for any
'lperson to have in his possession any
lottery ticket The California consti-
tuition also empowers cities and coun-
ties to make and enforce within their
limits such local, police and sanitary
regulations as are not in conflict with
general laws. 1t is held that convtc-
ton for violating such an ordinance is
proper. The United States government
refused the use of its mails to adyer-
Using lotteries, transmission of lottery
4 tickets and the announcement of the
winning numbers in lotteries and such
a prohibitiye ordinance in not void as
being an unreasonable and oppressive
police regulation.-66 Pacific Reporter
california, Judge Henshaw) So.
SLAVE MARRIAGES-REGU
Some pears after the close of the civil
war South Carolina passed an act pro-
viding that persons who, previous to
their actual emancipation, had occu-
| pied the relation of husband and wife,
should be deemed husband and wife, as
tho they had been married according
! to law. In an Interesting case recently
before it. involving certain property
rights, the supreme court of that state
| held that the act applied to the rela-
ltions between slaves during the year
1852; that 1t was passed with intene to
remedy u case where the parties had
agreed to be husband and wife, but
where the agreement was invalid be-
cause of the want OF power of the par
tiles to contract, and not where the re-
lation was mere concubinage.-39
Southeastern Rep. Is. Co., Judge Nc
1ver) $50.
BLASTING-INJUN
| Defendant was engaged In the busi-
ness of breaking up material or
metal called .scull." by blasting with
dynamite. These hastings, which oc-
CURED frequently, could be heard for
1.-TWO or three miles. The conclusion
was severe. sometimes breaking win
dows and cracking plaster. and small
pieces OF metal would be blown three or
four hundred yards, close to plain
tins dwellings,. Held. by the court of
common pleas, OF Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania, that defendant should be
lenjoined from carrying on his business
in this Chicago Legal News,
October.
RECOVERY FROM BUCKET SHOPS.
Plaintiff entrusted money to an agent
for the purpose of having him make q
purchase of certain bonds. This agent,
without the consent or knowledge of
the plaintiff, deposited the money from
time to time with the defendant, who
kept bucket shop, to cover margins in
gambling transactions. which were IL
legal and void, and constituted misde-.
meanors under the laws of the state.
| 1t was held, in an action by plaintiff
against the defendant, the proprietor
of the bucket shop, that the sums OF
money SO placed or deposited with him
by the agent could be recovered-l09
Federal Reporter, mo. 10).
MASTER AND SERVANT.
In an action for injuries received by
a servant, who was an unskilled work
man, 1t is held that the master was
liable for failure to inform the servant
| OF the hiden danger in an electric wire,
causing the injury.--66 Pacific Rep.
california, Judge McFarland) 76.
DAMAGES FOR INDIGNITIES.
It has been held in a late case in New
York that where an innocent woman
is arrested on an unlawful warrant
on the charge of having committed the
crime of arson. supported solely by the
allegation that some one told somebody
that she once offered another money TO
do the deed, and she is imprisoned
seven hours, and stripped naked be-
fore the gaze of strange men, verdict
of $500 for the alleged fndignities can
not be said to be excessive.-Law Notes
for October