The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-24
CASES OF INTEREST

In Re the Ananias CIub.-The
West Publishing Company recently re-
ceived the following letter relative to
a note appearing under Ceases of In
terest:''
Dear Sirs: In the issue of Ad-
vance Sheets, N. w. Reporter, date of
April 25th, under title Gases of Inter
est is a statement, Nero lies, but SO
did Abram, which raises an important
question of veracity on the part of the
Oklahoma court, to which reference
is made.
1.-The jurist who wrote that opinion
is likely to find himself a full-fedged
member of the Ananias club unless he
in the future exercises more care in
his assertions. Abram told the truth
| in the reference found in Genesis, 18th
chapter, 18th to goth verses. Sara1
was his sister. If the judge will read
| Genesis, 2O:12, he will find the posi-
tive statement SO made by Abram. She
was the daughter of his father, but
not of his mother.
1.-THE man who hints that the faith
er of the faithful and the friend Of
God was a liar simply shows that he
is himself a stranger to God and does
not realize what is necessary to con-
stitute a man His friend. The state
ment of Abran was the absolute truth
and the Oklahoma. court should in hui
miIity acknowledge the error and their
need for pardon. Yours for truth.
One of the editors, after reading the
above an& scanning over the Biblical
| references, soliloquizes as follows; but
not desiring to start a Shakespeare
Bacon controversy, he declines to Of
fer apologies to either:
ITO lie or not to lie, that is the ques-
ton,
| Whether it be nob1er in the mind
To always tell the plain unvarnished
truth
Or sometimes to prevaricate; to lie,
And run the risk of being caught at
But what is truth and what's a lie?
Doth it consist alone in formal words?
| Or may it also be by act and deed
Aye there's the rub. We pirate aid
OF truth and then we act the lie
| AS Abram did. And was his guilt the
Than that of the poor ignorant negro
Who stood in fear and trembling of
the law?
Before the bar of justice, great and
small,
white-skinned and dark-hued suit
ors equal stand.
And sometimes, strange to say, alike
/ are skinned
Ere from the sacred precinct they
/ withdraw
Carriers Mistake as Proximate
Cause of Passengers Death.-The ex-
| tremes to which man will go in at
! tempting to fix the proMmate cause
| of a death are well shown in Middle
| ton VS.. Whitridge, al New York
| Supplement ,104 On spring, day
pounds, of healthy appearance and
| about 81 years of age, boarded a
street car in New York City, bound
| for 1.-The ball game" When the car
arrived at the end of the line he was
still on the car, so the conductor tap
ped him on the shoulder and told
| him it was the end of the line. "A1l
right, all right" he said The con
| ductor then reported the matter to
| the starter, saying that he had a
| drunk and could not get him off. The
j starter told him ito let him sleep it
| Off and carry him down; that he
would be all right at the end of the
! trip He was thereupon carried back
| downtown. When asked for his fare
he started a eearch of his pockets,
when a gentleman who got on said,
E''I have often been in the same boat
myself; I have often had a jag on
myself; here is the fare" The con-
| ductor did not observe him further,
| and at about 5:35 the car was turned
| over to a new crew. Again he was
| allowed to ride over the line, the
| crew believing that riding in the air
| would revive him. Later on, however,
| after five hours of this riding, the
| conductor informed an inspector that
he thought the man was drunk and
! a policeman was then called. The
| police officer considered the man as
intoxicated and rang for the patrol
| wagon. At the station the officer re-
| ported that he had a drunk, but the
lieutenant at the desk made a person
/ al examination ane applied the tests
| taught by long experience, and, COM
ing to the conclusion that he was
sick, sent for an ambulance and he
was taken to hospital. There the
| trouble was diagnosed as cerebral
hemorrhage, commonly known as apo
plexy. The next day he was moved
| about two miles to another hospital,
| where he died that night at HAD.
| This action was then brought to re-
| cover of defendant carrier damages
for said death, the actionable negli-
| gence claimed being the failure of the
car crew to properly diagnose. deceas-
eds condition and promptly procure
| for him medical treatment and COM
plete rest, which neglect aggravated
his condition and accelerated the
death which might not otherwise
have happened. On appeal to the
Supreme Court, Appellate Division
the court holds that while it is shock
ing to think that a man stricken with
apop1exy should be carried around the
city for five hours in an open street
car, yet the treatment by the carrier
employees of this unfortunate passen-
ger, instead of being susceptible to
the charge of gross BRUTALITY and
inhumanity, seems to have been actu-
ated by kindly and sympathetic feel
ing. Instead of being thrown off the
car, he was allowed to remain there
xxyha
| notion that it was the best thing for
him; that he would sleep it off, and
that he had better be in the open air.
The conclusion of the court is that the