The news & observer., 1905-11-22
Brides Apparel in Creek
Wedding Postponed.
IN SUPREME COURT
Argument Yesterday in Important Case
of Moore VS.. Bank. x.Chief Justice
FurCh .s' J0ke. Fifteenth and Six
teenth Districts Called Same
Week.

Among the arguments in the Su-
preme Court yesterday was one as full
of human interest as the hottest heart
10 heart melodrama which is wont to
come South about the time the leaves
begin to feel the nip of frost. Like
the plays seeking a warmer climate,
the story, while old, is evergreen in
sentiment Brave hearts and true,
waiting the tieing of the knot that
binds and sobers up. foiled of their
transport for weary hours; a palpi-
tating bride and a rampant groom
both ready and willing and both de-
tanned this side of felicity; agony of
soul and spirit; tantalization of the
fiesh-hope deferred till it but glim-
mered through the dark-and all be-
cause of corporation and trus-
seau.
Heartless combination that, the van
ity of the world. the ingenuity of the
devil and the hope of heaven in a
hopeless mixtry! Between such
Scylla and Charybdis and in such a
vortex no wonder the passengers on
the bark of love trembled and were
afraid, No wonder loyal hearts, true
to their rudderS, tapped like sails
brought in the teeth of the wind. No
barking, ran under the house. Even
after the perils, there remained the
sting, the mortification,-and then
came the hope of the salve in the
courts, and the kind Judges of the
highest Court of all, seated grimiy on
their bench but with summer in their
hearts Hither turned the stricken
pair, after the knot was tied and the
trusseau was fit only to be cut up in
emergencies into smaller patterns, for
the more prosaic dowery of dollars,
which is second thought with love.
Mental anguish cry both plain
tiffs. man and wife; anguish because,
if it hadn't been for the trusSeau, we
would never have consented to wed;
if il hadn't been for the railroad we
would have Walked if it hadn't been
for the creek the trusseau would not
have been wet; and if it hadn't been
for the wettng of the trusseau we
would have been married sooner.
Therefore give us damages-and quick
about it,
The Supreme Court is considering.
The prologue but vaguely states the
case 1t shows however, that the
matter was one to strike deep root in
to the doctrine of mental anguish
Heretofore it has been sufficient that
the hero and heroine should marry at
the final drop of the curtain, with
griefs going away over the shoulders
of the past i'm rosy clouds. Now it
seems that the clouds still hover, af-
ter year of welded bliss, because the
ceremony was not sooner performed
Life is short and time is fleeting: oh.
brother make the most of what may
vet be spent-when a fellow has his
girl. And, if there stands between a
mere trusseau, and the corporation
has destroyed the wedding garments
strike for damages to the hilt Vast
ed moments never return. A bliss de-
ferred may be the sweeter; the aggre-
gate of bliss is lost. The wait be-
tween despair and realization is worse
than wars descriptive adjective.
Mental Anguish Try it and see!
Thus in legal maxim spoke the
plaintiffs Answered the corporation
dryly that their trains had no way OF
knowing that when they checked a
telescope valise'' they became the
guardians of Loves trappings. That
mental anguish argued knowledge
on the part of the defandant that
there would be-love-to pay should
their duty not be performed. That
the plaintiffs had each other now
and mental anguish resulting was al
any rate not the fault of the raliroao
which postponed the event.
Thus crossed the issues. The facts
were:
1t was on the 18th of October, 1904
that Mrs Dora Anderson, flushed ano
expectant boarded the train of the de-