The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-10
HOSPITAL BOARD
LOSES ITS APPEAL,
Richmond Court Has No Jurisdiction in Enjlen
tic Colony Matter-Many Important Deci-
sions in Supreme Court-Dvorce
Refused Norfolk Wife

I william Evans III Evans VS. Evans !,
Hosg c. r., SO: When people under
s.and that they must live together. en-
cept lor a few reasons known 10 ,hs
.aa. .hey learn TO soften by mutual
accommodation that yoke which they
KNOW they cannot shake OF. They
become good husbands and good wives
|; from the necessity OF remaining hus-
oahds and wives; for necessity is
powerful master in teaching duties
which It imposes"
In conclusion, Judge White urges
IN view or the refusal 10 grant the di-
vorce that the litigants pass the
evening of their lives at least in peace
and respectability"
Killed In Fall From CIR.
The damage suit OF Wickham and
Northrup, receivers. against Leftwicb,s
administrator, from the Law and
Equity Court of the city OF Richmond
| Is affirmed III an opinion by Judge
Keith. Robert II. Ieftwich was killed
ny !aii from Main Street car at
laurel Street. He. with others, was
standing on the rear platform The
| others got off, but the car started. IL
appears. while Leftwich was alighting
There was much evidence to show TINT
Leftwfch was intoxicated, but the
questions OF reasonable time for the
, descent with those OF negligence and
intoNication. are held to be matters of
fact which were concluded by the fury
with the evidence before 1t, when it
rendered q verdict OF damages.
The appeal is dismissed in the case
oi w u. Carpenter against the Camp
manufacturing Company. from Bruins
wick county, The company bought
certain timber land from Carpenter.
and the money and deeds were placed
IN escrow The company, it claims, has
reason to think that Carpenter con-
templated violating the terms of the
agreement and asked for an fpiunc-
ton TO prevent him from purcha sing
certain additional land. 1t is held by
Judge Keith. in the opinion, that a
htlgant cannot avail himself OF that
| part Of the decree which is favor
able 10 him while appealing for q
reversal OF those parts which are un.
favorable This is brought forth by
the fact that Carpenter accepted the
| money in question under the decision
Of the lower court.
in another Carpenter Camp case. In
which the company was the appellant,
there was reversal. tho opinion being
by Judge Keith. This involves certain
lumber railway matters.
Bought Wrong Land.
Judge Cardwell prepared the opinion
asainst Watkins, from the Law and
ChancerN Court OF Norfolk. 1t seemed
that Watkins owned tract OF timber
land in the Dismal Swamp. in North
Carolina, and Briggs bought It. Ha
located the land through some djrcc
, tons given him, but after the purchas Sc
found that he had been mistaken in
the property as the land which he
looked at was not that which he
he ax-t1o III
II was an honest mistake all around.
the court holding that the minds OF the
buyer and seller had never met. There
fore the contract Of sale is rescinded.
Smith & March win their appeal
against the Northern Neck Mutual Fire
Insurance Association of Virginia, from,
northumberland county, in which the
lower court is reversed. The COM
plainants had insurance on their store
at Miskimmon, which was burned.
There was a clause in the policy which
REQUIRED suit TO be brought within six
months from the loss. but this seems
to conflict with the State Law allowing
one year
Judge Keith says in his opinion. tina t
the loss did not occur for q year af :
ter the passage Of the act. Therefore
the law cannot be held to impair a
right Of action which had not ac-
erued- II the court were to hold tho
act unconstitutional, lie further saws.
it would have to find that 1t might
have materially affacted tho ntcrest :
Of reinsurance company, which II
holds was not he case.
Thrce-Ndrd VIII.
Everything ds LOUIS" So wrote
! George T. Smith in book furnished
by the Southern Railway to Its EN-
ployes in which to record the move
| ment OF trains. On this Mrs. Smith
claims all her husbands property on
the ground that this Is will 1t Was
made In 1900, eight years before the
testators death.
While the evidence Ia that Smith