Evening star., 1912-11-18
ODD SUITS D0CKETED
U. S. Supreme Court Has Per-
picking Cases to Decide.
BURN ON HER BACK FIGURES
Use of an Automatic Gun in Hunting
Ducks Cause Of Another.
WEDDING RING IS A FACTOR
Three Quarts of Whisky and Under
weight Loaves of Bread Also
Are Involved.
BURN ON HER BACK FIGURES
WEDDING RING IS A FACTOR

i y duck-Aunting trip, a burn on the
back some underweight loaves of bread
three quarts of whisky and a wedding
ring were the original causes OF some OF
the perplexing cases that will occupy the
attention Of the learned justices of the
/ SuI RENE Court of the United States dur
ing the present term. Furthermore, the
state of Illinois takes the lead in the
number of cases docketed for hearing be-
fore the Supreme Court last week, five
out of seven which went on the docket
during the seven days ending last Sat
urday having been from that state. OF
| these the case of Jack Johnson. col
ored prize fighter, was the only one that
attracted general attention.
| In Pennsylvania they have law which
prohibits the hunting of ducks with au-
tomato guns. When Thomas w. Nc
Comb went hunting a year or so ago IN
1inicum township, Delaware county, Pa.
however, he did not know about thus
law He had frst-class luck, basged a
goodiy number Of ducks. and then he
was surprised when prosecution was
| begun against hlm on account of the
wed pom he used. McComb attacked the
constitutionality of the law, and his day s
outing, which at the time was mere
peasant incident, has now brought him
| into the Supreme Court of the United
pennsylvania statute will be passed upon.
Baker Fined for Oversight.
| Matthias Schmidinger is a baker out in
Chicago. One day he is alleged to have
| baked and sold some loaves of bread
| that did not come up to the standard of
weight fixed by city ordinance, and for
the oversight he was arI ested and fined
S1UO. Mr.. Schmidinger asks the Supreme
Court to declare the ordinance under
which he was mulcted unconstitutional
and contravenins the fourteenth amend
ment to the Constitution. which forbids
the enactment by the states of laws Inn
lung the nperty or immunlties Of citizens
Mary F. Butts. colored, of Everett,
Mass, thought she did not receive the
treatment to which her ticket entitled
ner on a vacation trip by water from
Boston to Baltimore and retthn in 1907.
AS an outcome she vii. ask the Supreme
Court to decide that the old civil rights
act'' of 1875, which was he'd unconsti-
tutionai in bitterly fought cases many
years ago, Is constitutional neve. theless
and in full force and effect upon the ocean
and other places where the United States
has jurisdiction. She wants damages.
Whisky Cause of Another Suit.
Three quarts Of whisky will bring Ad-
Olson Shiptuck to court on a charge of in
Producing the liquor into allotted lands
of members of the Pottawatomie Indians
of Kansas
A burn on the back of Anne Sweeney
of the District of Columbia forms the
basis of another suit. On its outcome
will depend whether physicians are liable
for burns by x-rays in photographing pa
| tients
Over the meaning of the word "auc-
ton comes a case from the Hawaiian
Islands. Arrests we're made there for an
alleged violation of Il law requiring a Ii
eense for sales at auction. The sales in
question Were made to retail fish dealers.
The point is raised whether this was an
auction, and if SO there is a distinction
between public" and private auctions
Whether the government must pay for
Che forage for two horses for the late
Maj. Nathaniel II. Mclean of Cincinnati
and tor two servants is involved i'll
another case. The point arises as a re-
suit of his reinstatement in the army.
The horses and servants We're employed
after he retired from the army and be-
fore he was reinstated by act of Con-
gress.
Express Rate Law Questioned.
| Edward II. Croninger. a Cincinnati jew
tISi, " -atidiltds >1d., ~ <AudiiS SApi0aS
precipitated case which will determine
whether express companies, since the
passage of the Hepburn rate law. may
limit their liability for loss of articles.
Whether the back of a bay window
may form party WALL is the basis of
a dispute between Lewis f. Smoot and
the Heyl heirs of the District of Column
ba, to come before the court for de-
| cision.