Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13
QUEER PROBLEMS OF LAW.
Cases With Which English Judges and
 Lawyers Have Struggled.

Lawyers Have Struggled.
 Hundreds of years of test cases have not yet elucidated all the possible points of difficulty in the English law.
 Here is remarkable problem with which the Blackburn lawyers have just been confronted: An English gentle man had twin sons who were born within a few minutes of each other. He made will that his property in Australia should go to whichever of the two sons arrived at the age of 21 first.
 The younger of the two emigrated to Australia, while the other one re mained in England, and the former was still in the Antipodes at the time o. his coming of age. Now, Australian time is some hours in advance of Greenwich. and, therefore, the young man out there was 21 before his elder brother at home. Which of these two brothers is legally entitled to the prop erty? The question has not yet been decided, and in the meantime readers may exercise their own acumen upon 1t.
 Are eggs eggs, or are only hens eggs eggs? This may seem a ridiculous question, but nice shades of meaning are involved, and case which turned upon it went through two or three courts of law. A lady sent an order for dozen eggs to dairyman and he sent her ducks eggs. She sent them back as not being what she ordered, but he refused to take them. She, in turn, declined to keep them, and some time elapsing between their journeys from the house to the shop, the eggs went bad, and eventually the shop keeper sued the lady for Is Sd, their value.
 The county court judge ordered her to pay, declaring that ducks eggs were as much eggs as any others; but the lady appealed, and Kings Bench re- versed the decision on the ground that when a party ordered eggs hens eggs were meant, and if any other conten- ton were admitted any kind of eggs might be sent, such as pigeons. cana ries' or even rattlesnakes. Ducks eggs, it was deicded, were not eggs in the ordinary sense of the term.
 Are the grandchildren of a man also his chiIdrenI In the legal sense this question is not so absurd as 1t looks. and some time ago it was most seri- ously and laboriously eontended in the courts that according to act of parIia- meth they were.
 The particular act in question, passed in the reign of the late Queen Victoria. laid 1t down that the father and the sEu q A mother, and the chidrenl of any poor person. being of sufficient ability, shah relieve and maintain any such poor person"
 The argument was that. according to the context. grandchildren were to be reekOned as children for this purpose just as grandparents were reekoned as parents On the other side 1t was ar- gued that if grandchildren were chil- dren then great-grandehiIdren were children also. and that a man might in this way he called upon to support his father and mother. his four grand parents. his eight great=ETandparents and as many grandchildren and great grandchildren aE be might be lucky of unlucky enough to possess.
 Is skinned milk nsi1kf A man asked for a glass of milk to drink and was given skinned milk and the purveyor was fined for it. but in a higher court the decision was reversed # being con tended at the time that skinned miIk was really much mnre miIk than milk that was not skinned since fhe isfter contained something fhst was n0t mia at all-thzf 1z Biiz