Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-07
: important Decisions
PARENT AND CHILD.

1AfSE1TSl AM NIilLl1
A daughter, is years DID, living with
her father, giving him her services. is.
in legal contemplation, person de-
pendent upon the father for support.
tho she may be physically able to earn
her own living. The right of the father
tc claim the services of the minor ana
the right of the daughter to support
are reciprocal rights and obligations.
81 Southern Rep. U.a.), 3s.
CAPACITY TO MAKE WILLS.
The supreme court of Louisiana holds,
in a late case, that tho person execute
II last Will and testament during an at
tack of delirium tremens 1t Will be
maintained If executed during lucid
Iinterval.-106 Louisiana Reports.
NON-DELIVERY OF MESSAGES.
A father can not recover for mental
anguish occasioned by telegraph COM
pany's negligent failure to deliver
message, causing the absence of
brother in-law at the death of a daugh-
ter. the relationship not being such
that any addition to the fathers suffer-
ing could be presumably Southern
Rep. Gala, Judge DowdelD, rs.
LIFE INSURANCE-INFA
| An action was brought on policy of
| life insurance, upon the life of boy
Is years old when the policy was is
sued. The company contested payment
to the beneficiary, the defense being
that the application contained false an
swers to questions which, by the terms
of the policy, were made warranties. 1t
was held, that an infant is not bound
| by his warranties In an application for
life insurance. and the company can not
defend an action on the policy by prov
ing their falsity.-50 Atlantic Rep.
(Rhode Island, Judge Stiness). s34.
LIQUORS CIVIL DAMAGES FOR
SALE.
| Maine has q statute which provides
as follows. Every wife, child, parent,
lguardian, husband or other person who
is injured in person, property, means
of support, or otherwise, by any intoxf-
Gated person, or by reason of the intoxi-
cation of any person, has right OF
action in his own name against any
one who by selling or giving any in
toxicating liquors, or otherwise, has
caused or contributed to the intoSica-
ton of such person." The supreme
court of that state has held that where
! q wife has been injured in the means of
I her support by reason of the death of
her husband, caused by his intoxication,
she can maintain an action under this
statute against the person who sold or
gave him the liquor which produced the
Iintoxication.-50 Atlantic Rep. (Me..
Judge WiswelD, s92.
CORPORATIONS NAME.
A corporation of Connecticut, The
Peck Bros. & Co.." commenced suit
iip Illinois against this corporation of
t"Peck Bros. Co." to restrain the use of
the name Peck Bros. CO. or Peck
/ Bros The assumption of the name
was of itself the utterance of false
hood, for there We're no brothers Peck
| interested in the corporation. The
name assumed was voluntarily selected
and for the purpose of appropriating
the goodwill and name of another.
Judge Jenkins, of the United States
court of appeals. In granting an in
/ junction enjoining the defendants from
| a further preparation of the wrong,
makes use of the following vigorous
Language. wrong attended its birth and
fraud stood sponsor at Its christening.
l-34 Chicago Legal News, 1So.