The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-09
QUEER PROBLEMS
THAT ARE SOMETIMES PRESENTED
 TO THE COURTS.
Case in England Where . Man Left His Estate to Whichever of Ills Two Sons Reached the
 Aee of 21 First.

Tit Bits.
 Hundreds of years of test cases have not yet elucidated all the possloie points of difficulty in the English law.
 Here Is remarkable problem w.tn which the Blackburn lawyers have just been confronted: An English gentleman had twin sons who were born within few minutes of each other. He made a wil, 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 remained in England and the former was still In the Antipodes at the time of his com ing to 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 property? 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 ridiculous ques- tion but nice shades of meaning are involved. and case which turned up- on 1t went through two or three courts of law. A lady sent an order for dozen eggs to a 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. 6d, 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- tion were admitted any kind of eggs might be sent, such as pigeons, ca naries' or even rattlesnakes. Ducks eggs, 1t was decided. were not eggs In the ordinary meaning of the term.
 Are the grandchildren of a man also his children? In the legal sense this question Is not SO absurd as 1t looks. and some time ago it was most serious ly and laboriously contended in the courts that according to act of parlia- ment they were.
 The particular act in question, passed in the reign of the late Queen vic- toria. laid 1t down that "the father and the grandfather, the mother and the grandmother, and the children of any
 
 shall relieve and maintain any such poor person"
 The argument was that, according to the context, grandchildren were to be reckoned as children for this purpose. just as grandparents were reckoned as parents. On the other side it was ar- gued that If grandchildren were chill dren then great-grandchildren were children also, and that man might in this way be called upon to support his father and mother, his four grandpar- ents, his eight great grandparents and as many grandchildren and great grandchildren as he might be lucky or unlucky enough to possess.
 Is skinned milk milk? man asked for a glass of milk to drink and was given skinned milk, and the purveyor was fined for 1t: but in a higher court the decision was reversed, it being con- tended at the time that skinned milk was really much more milk than milk that was not skinned. since the latter contained something that was not milk at all-that Is, cream.