The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-28
FUNNY POINTS IN Law
Odd Problems With Which Courts
Have Had to WrestIe.
4 QUEER QUESTION OF TIME.

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su.'0.s s..'0" :" ..'e
Msns Ws' Upon when Ha"ss the
Ssessssssnt 81 ~ Eseats-Ars Duck
ESos EGGS, a"d % Sk'HsNn'sk N'lk1
Z One ~ IN. .tr.n,..t rroh,.m. .ver
.,hr,,.t..s = -. S..,..ar - =. !. 9,
was 'nat growing ous OF Inc oispoei-
ton or the property OF an Englishman,
the father Of twin sons. It appears
that this eccentric owned extensive
tracts OF land in Australia, the great
part Of which, he stipulated in his will
should 90 to the first OF the two sons
to attain the age of twenty-one years.
The younger Of the sons had emf
grated to Australia. while his brother
remained In England II. no hanneninp
that they were in opposite quarters Of
the globe when they came.of age. The
Ane point involved in the case was
this: Australian time is tsome hours In
advance Of Greenwich. and therefore
the claim was made that the vounp
man n An.tr.l,e reached ~. ms tor,tv
horc.~ ~. y,-,.h.- a. no,,,. 49, aor.
s,ks-s.s Uh,ch ~ th~ 10 hr,tt,a-s
wa. lee.lly entit,ed to the property )?
The Question IL vet unsettled and bids
fair to AFFORD employment for the ex-
ercise Of lawrers' wits for smany years
Ia come.
Another b.,d mt for the ,swvers to
~rscr n. nr.sant.a Nv = c... tr,ed N
grI,t~r. .,,,,. 800. so m. cr..t,c,
- "a substance. Arc eeru err. or are
only hens egg. eggs? Ludicrous as
this may seem. the point involved
boma nice shades of meaning in these
Uond. sufRc,.nt. indeed to carry tho
casa throneh .avernlcnrrts.
man RAJ ordared of his 1rnrer one
dozen exes. he sent ducks' eggs. Thsse
were returned a. not being what the
customer had asked for, but the grocer
refused to take them back. The Gus
homer. in turn, declined to receivesthe
,ex1s. and they were sent back and
forth 90 frequently for several days.
during which they became bad, that
Mnally the grocer deemed himself just1-
fsed in entering suit against the Gus
toner Tor the value or the goods.
The magistrate before whom the
case was hrst tried ordered the Gus
toner to pay, declaring. ridiculous as
1t.may seem, that ducks eggs were as
,much eggs AZ any others The man
appealed from this. andsthe next court
reversed the decision on the ground
that such an order as the one IN ques-
ton tacluy implied mems eggs, II De-
1ng pointed out that II any other con-
tention was allowed any kind OF eggs
might be sent, sucn AZ pigeons cana
fie6 or even snakes eggs. Tnar SET
tied It
IN . case IN q southern court TINS IN
teressln9 question once came up:, Are
the 8ranocniidren OF z man also MS
cnisoren! In the iesai sense this ques-
tion Il not 90 1unny asst seems, mas
much as 1t mas been seriously con-
tended not only In the United States.
but In Great Britain AZ well, what they
are.
IS SKINNED MIX MIX! rms point
grew out OF case tr1ed IN Arkansas
NOT very iong ago. a man na0 asked
at dairy Tor glass OF mix to drink
and was given skinned milk. for
which at the customers complaint,
the dairyman was nneo. IN q higher
court, however, this decision was re-
vereeo, II oeing commenced tnat SKIM
med mix was really much more milk
tnan milk that was not skinned. Tor
the reason that the latter contained
something that was not milk at all
VIZ cream.
some OF the oldest points at law are
100. Growing out OF the tenoer pas
soa. Ju0So1n western court was
ooce'caIleo onto determine the hour
At winch evening courtship should
ce9se. The circumstances were these:
| A merchant had become much con-
cerned 1t the late hour at which his
Gensnsersf lover fingered with ner ut
Hne pareotaI aoooe ana 80 sought the
0id or the law to expedite the young
mans time Of departure.
In delivering his decree the learned
Judge declared that II O'Clock p. m.
sas the latest hour at which any
young man, fance or not should be
federated In the young woman's home
would be entirely justified In forcibly
kjecting him.
A queer case once turned up IN
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