Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-17
Important Decisions.
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FALLACY OF AN OLD MAXIM.
| A case is reported from Louisiana
that is a strang combination of super
stition and ignorance. An action was
brought for the death of the PLAINTIFF s
| father alleged to have been caused by
the bite of dog. 1t appears that the
daughter of the deceased, one of the
plaintiffs, obtained from the owner of
the dog a small bunch of hair, and con-
ceived the idea, it seems, that it would
soothe the wound and cause it to heal
She put this hair on the scratches in
ficted by the dog, carrying out the old
superstition that the hair of the dog is
an antidote for the bite. She, after
having put on the hair, applied piece
of salt meat over the hair. The COM
bination remained on the wound for
| about week, at the end of which time
erysipelas developed. About this time
the necessity of a physician suggested
itself, and upon the trial of the case the
physician testified that he did not con-
meet the death of the patient with the
bite of the dog, even remotely. but to
the barbarous treatment the wound re-
ceiyed. 1t was held that a slight wound
greatly aggravated by imprudent treat
ment will not give rise to liability for
damages, where the death is traced to
another cause than the bite of the ami
mal.-Law Notes for March.
FRACTIONS OF A DAY.
The law does not recognize fractions
of a day; when it provides a per diem
compensation for the time necessarily
devoted to the duties of an office, the
officer is entitled to this daily compen-
cation for each day on which it be-
comes necessary for him to perform
any substantial service, If he does per-
form the same, regardless of the time
occupied in its performance. "a Chica-
go Legal News COLORADO case) No. 90
WOMEN ELIGIBLE AS LAWYERS.
Some weeks ago we gave in this col
umn the report of a decision handed
down by the supreme court of Mary
land. where it was decided that as the
law then stood a woman could not be
licensed to practice law in that state
1t must go against the grain of court
to be compelled to refuse to allow a
finely educated woman to practice law
simply because she is woman. The |
legislature of Maryland. which is now
in session. took the question up. and on
the 4th of March the state senate
passed bill to authorize the admission
of women as attorneys in the state
courts. The bill received only two
votes in the negative. The house will /
undoubtedly concur in the passage of
the bill, and the lady who was few
weeks ago rejected can renew her APP
plication.
PUBLIC CONTRACTS = COMPETE
TION.
Two independent, rival contractors |
agreed as to the amount that each
should bid for doing certain work, on
an understanding that the successful
bidder would share his profits with the |
other. After completing the work and
receiving his compensation, the sue
cessful bidder refused to share with his
rival, and in a suit brought by the lat
ter against the former 1t was held that
such a contract between bidders was
one tending to stifle competition, was |
contrary to public policy and could not /
be enforced. sc Southwestern Rep.
(TeXas) No.
TELEGRAMS
telegraph operator in New Orleans
is not presumed, in law, to know the
Sunday hours of the company in town
in Texas, and, in accepting a message
does not undertake to deliver it re-
CARELESS of such hours, in the absence
of specific agreement to that effect.
Sc Southwestern Rep. (Texas, Judge