The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-14
CASES OF INTEREST

AN EXPENSIVE JOY RIDE.-Joy
 riding itself affects the head like old
 wine, but aided and abetted by ye
 a1d tyme lager beer and ham sand flow with intoxicating bliss and bring
 about a general smash-up. A case
 Ion all fours'' is Monroe ya4 Longren
 ct a1., 124 Pacific Reporter S367. S7
 full night of which we write. drove
 his car to the country, taking with
 him two friends (male). They stopped
 at a farmhouse and persuaded an-
 other man, friend of theirs to go
 with them for a pleasure ride. Ar
 irving at Topeka, Kan. they drove to
 line. Here they discovered that one
 of the tires of their car was split,
 necessttating a change of tires. One
 of the party (Rutter) then said. We car owned by one Monroe, valed at
 $3,0Oo. which had been left at the garage. Rutter had been occasion ally hired by Monroe as chauffeur.
 but was not regularly employed. The lamps on Monroe's car were lighted and they ran it out During their wiches and beer for the party, thus completing the stage setting for a real joy ride. The party soon oe- came intoxicated, and while driving the car at a high speed on the coun- try road an accident occurred in which the car was overturned ana wrecked. Monroe, the real owner of the car, then brought suit against the members of the party who entertain ed themselves with his car without his consent. The jury allowed him $1,o0O damages. In the above en- titled case. Billiard appeals. The su- preme Court of Kansas holds that he is liable as a joint tort-feasor, and affirms the judgment.
 VIEWS ON REPUDIATING CIR SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE-Shou ouid circumstantial evidence be rejected? The Court of Criminal Appeals Of Ok ing to reject circumstantial evidence because at some remote time and in distant localities some few persons may be unjustly convicted thereon, we should be consistent, and we m ust also reject all testimony. because great many more persons have been mony than have ever been convicted on cfrcumstantial testimony. The Savior of mankind was crucif1ed upon direct and false testimony. In third chapter of St. Luke, we find the following: t(1) And the whole multi tude of them arose and led him unto PHate. (2) And they began to ac- cuse him, saying, We found this fel- low perverting the nation, and for bidding to give tribute to Caesar mony, which Pilate himself did not believe, but upon which he acted on account of the clarnor of the rabble. Stephen. the first martyr in behalf of after the crucifxion of Christ, was convicted and executed upon direct and perjured testimony. " If we could not believe any thing unless 1t were demonstrated to us by our own senses, or was testi-
 fled to by direct evidence of eyewit- nesses, all secret murders, forgeries. arsons, burg1aries, and other offenses could be committed with absolute inn punity. If we turn from the world without to the great mech anism within us, we see again that no rational man pauses for one in stant to doubt the fierce Of circun1- stantia1 testimony. What evidence have we that it is a heart that beats or a brain that throbs within us, ex- cept from the fact that those organs exist in all similarly constituted be- ings? And we accept remedies for all the ills that flesh is heir to upon precisely the same faith ir1 circurn- stantia1 evidence" Elk parte Jeffries, 124 Pacific Reporter, 924.