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

WAITING AT THE CHURCH,
 One Browning was about to be mar
 the wedding he went to a livery sta
 ble and entered into contract to
 furnish him. for the use of himself,
 friends and family, a carriage and
 residence that evening to carry him.
 self and his wedding party to the
 church where Browning was to be
 married. The charge was $5, which amount he paid, and informed the
 livery stable keeper of the purpose for which the carriage was to be used and the hour appointed for the cere- mony. For some reason not disclosed no carriage was sent to Brown1ngs residence as agreed. On account of this Browning and his wedding party were compelled, in order to reach the church where his prospective bride and friends were awaiting his coming
 to resort to a public street car, in which Browning and his friends, at the expenditure of 30 cents for street car fare, attended the wedding, ap- pare1ed in dress or evening
 clothes The wedding ceremony was delayed for 45 or 50 minutes and dur ing this period of delay the bride. fam fly, minister and friends in attend ance at the church were kept waiting
 of Browning vs- Ffes, 58 Southern Re7s porter 931, is suit for damages
 brought against the livery stable keep
 CT for preaching the contract of car riage. The Court of Appeals of Ala gan1a holds that plaintiff is entitled to recover for physical discomfort, for
 considering the subject-matter of the contract, which was well known to the
 defendants, it was in the reasonable contemplation of the parties that the proximate result ensuing from a breach by the defend dants would cause the plaintiff inconvenience, annoyance, mental hara assment, well as mental pain. in consequence thereof. The court says, ftCertainly it is but com
 mon Knowledge that some distress of mind must be the natural and proxi- mate sequence of being delayed and an appointment of such delicate na- ture.''t
 A AMUSING INCIDENTS OF COURT ROOM SCENE-Once upon a. time James Morris became a benedict, and at once embarked on a vast sea of trouble where every wave spelled sor- row, and every ripple distress. Lit tie troubles came first, and they con- tinued to come till they numbered seventeen; and as we know that t'trou- bles never come singly,'' it is well to state that three times there came twins The sweet milk of domestic love and felicity soon changed into the gall and bitterness of discord and foundation of his unhappy career. Jas. claimed the title and likewise did his wife. He had paid for it out of his labors but the title he had placed in her name as an offering on the altar of conn l1bial peace and bliss But time changed their relations, and now James wants his rroperty back. so he sails into court, shipwrecked and bro ken, with c. Q. D. signal, praying that a resulting trust be decla red in his favor in the property standing In the name of his wife, as recorded in Medlin vs. Morris. 148 Southwestern Reporter, S5 The Supreme Court of Missouri in commenting on the tes- tfmony taken at the trial says that it "is in such conflict as to make the task of reconcfling it hopeless one The discourse of some of the witnesses 1 flies so high it cannot be followed | without precaution against danger of l judicial calnness.'' If ev- erything testified to is to be believed | plaintiff would be a good husband, an | industrious sober, successful m ectan- ic who never drank, ito do any harn'' and who turned all his wa | ges over to his wife. Contra, plain | tif would ha unsuccessful saloon