The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-06

Ignorance as to the Law in Everyday
Occurrences,
(Kansas City Journal)

CKansas City Journal)
1t is an American prediction To be-
lieve the outre and freakish stories
that are based solely on hearsay testi-
mony and to reject often the common
place matters of fact. 4 list OF the
cheerful lies that are commonly be
lieYed would I'LL a volume. only d
few of them are given below.
How often have you been inflicted
with the story of the man who was
Overpaid when cashing a check at the
bank, and the cashier telling him that
no mistakes would be corrected after
the customer left the window? Ac-
coTding 10 the story, the cashier laid
down the mandate before he knew the
mistake was in his favor. 1t makes
an excellent yarn, but diligent search
discloses that it never had any founda-
ton in fact. Banks have no such rule.
II a customer is undeTpaid or Overpaid
the mistake will appear when the bal
ance is struck al the end OF the day
business, and the error Will be cheer
fully rectified. But the majority Of tbs
public believes the fictitious story Of
how the fellow got the best OF the
! bank simply because ii is a good
story and they like to believe it.
Probably the most common error on
the part of the public is the belief that
when a dead body is found no one mas
a right to touch or move the remains
until the coroner comes There
never was any such law, is not now
and probably never will be. The citi-
zen who is of an inquiring turn Of
mind has perfect right to examine
dead bodies he runs across in the
course Of his travels. to move the re-
mains and even search the pockets of
the deceased, provided, of course, that
his motives are honest. That IS all
that is necessary.
There is also prevalent belief that
note signed or contract entered into
on Sunday is void and that either party
can plead the fact of the sacred day TO
get out Of a bad bargain. This is not
true. If man enters into a contract
or signs a note on Sunday he Is legally
bound and can have no defenses that
he would not have if the transaction
had occurred in the middle Of the
week
Il had my back against my own
house when | struck this man." SAYS
the defendant in police court He be-
lieves that his proximity to his castle
gives him more rights than he would
have If he were in the street. This be-
lief has been the cause of much can
tankerous litigation. and il has ever
resulted in the ruling that a man has
a right to defend himself i'm a reason
able manner if he is attacked whatever
may be his geographical position. and
the incidental contiguity of his home
cuts no ice" i'm the case.
Doctors agree that the Dublio is
wrong in the popular conceution that
burglars sometimes chlorOform the in
mates Of a house before committing n
robbery. The usual story is that The
anaesthetic was sduirted into the
sleeping room through kew holes. A
Kansas City surgeon who has had oc-
caSion 70 administer chlorofornn mr.
ether 500 times SAYS that ehInroforn
administered in this manner would mt
nuietus on the burglar rs well a the
inmates Of a home. Phvsieians have
tried manv times to administer chIarn-
form To sieeDing persons, and have
net with very Door results. The first
effect Of an ausesthetic Is not n Inn
10 insensibilitv but 10 arouse all the
mental snd nhvsical Vigor OF the ner-
son 70 whom IL is given.
The nrbliH has sreat confidence I'm
the mario No. g. ar6 without anv
reaSonaI>lA hosts FOR the belief II IS
connrr,oniv believed thot If = d-nu-nire
person sfnks for The thi-a t',,,e he is
ro~a fo- ono,s end I'll The facta car,
trafict this Manv oarsnns die m the
fa~st s'nkin0. and II one has The
strength and the vitality 20 rise ta the
Surface 80 the ra $50 t~s,eA ~ s4.,.slfs',A &c
an exeaIlent prespfipfion that he VIII
be able 70 DO so again. In an eddy Ar
rapidly moving waters people have