Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-03
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yImportant Decisions

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

ASSIGNING UNEARNED WAGES.
| The question whether unearned
wages or salary can be legally assigned
seems to be an open question in illi-
nois, as it is in many states. The APP
pelate court of that state, first dis
trict, states that it has sought in vain
| for legal grounds on which the I'M
earned wages or salary of a workman
or employe may be protected against
his own assignment fairly and vol
unfairly made for proper consider
alton The law, when properly invoked,
is ample to protect one in his rights,
but if the person has sufficient mental
capacity to attend to ordinary bust
ness and acts nationally in the ordinary
affairs of life, the law is impotent to
protect him against the consequence
of his own folly. 3o Chicago Legal
News, IA.
FRIGHTENED HORSES.
A railroad company which erects q
mail crane in or near highway, which,
from it's appearance when a mail bag
is hung on it. is calculated to brighten
horses of ordinary gentleness driven
in the highway and does so, injuring
the driver, is liable for the negligence.
The court admits that mail cranes are
necessary to the business of railroads.
but that it is not necessary to erect
them so near public roads that they
wild abstruct the use of the highway
by the public. 33 Southern Rep. Gala
bama, Judge McClellam 10.
POWER OF THE COURT.
Judge A. A. Coleman, judge OF the
10th judicial circuit of Alabama, issued
an order directing the sheriff OF the
county to prohibit the passage OF
horses or stock Of any kind or We
hicles of any kind" thru paved street
at the side of the court house in the
city of Birmingham during the court
hours. Vehicles of the fire department
and street cars. not running at rate
to exceed two miles an hour were eN-
copied from this rather unusual or
der. In suit brought by the mayor
and aldermen against the judge, to
prevent the execution Of this order,
it was held that both under the statute
comforting upon every court the power
to preserve and enforce order, and
the general principles of the common
law, court has power, in order to
prevent disturbance in the court
room, to stop traffic on the street so
far as necessary. 33 Southern Rep.
alabama, Judge Haralson) 10.
FALSE STATEMENTS.
Where an application for policy OF
life insurance was made a part of the
contract, and provided that false an
swers would vitiate part of the con-
tract, and the answers in regard to the
health of the insured were materially
false, but the agent writing the in
surance, who was required to assure
himself as to insured's health, knew
the facts, and knew the true condition
of his health, and continued to collect
the premiums, the knowledge of the
agent was notice to the company, and
1t was liable on the policy. 20 Southern
Rep. CTexas, Judge BookhouD SOB.
A JUDGES NOTION OF CARE.
In Edwards VS.. Southern Railway
Company, recent South Carolina
case, Judge Pope said: IF was going
to shoe a kicking mule, would be more
careful when I got to his hind feet
than was with his fore feet. l would
be careful with his forefeet, but when
got to his hind feet would be more
careful" For ways that are dark and
tricks that are vain" the mule is as
peculiar as the heather Chinese. and
we are afraid that the judge is not
sufficiently conversant with the ways
Of that beast to take up the business
of farrier with other than calamitous
results. claw Notes for December).