Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-27
Supreme Court Upholds Cir
cult Judge and Going Law
in Fort Smith Case.
DUNN DIVORCE IS
DECLARED INVALID
Mrs. Bessie Stark Dunn Did Not Have
Legal Ground for Divorce From
A. '. Dunn, Says High
Tribunal.

Little Rock, Oct 26.-For the sec
ond time the Arkansas supreme cour.
| has upheld the constitutionality of
| the Going liquor law, this morning
affirming a verdict against ] Il.
| Hickey, a Fort Smith saloonist, who
sold liquor after the judge of the
Sebastian Circuit Court had reversed
the county court on the liquor petit
ton decision and had ordered the
saloons to close.
Petitions asking for saloons in
Fort Smith were granted in the Sc
bastian county court, but the prohi-
biticnists appealed to the circuit
court. The circuit court revised the
county court and gave the saloonists
until certain day on which to close
Hickey to test the decision sold three
quarts of whiskey after the date So
by the circuit court for the saloons
to close. He was fined in lower
court and appealed to the supreme
court, in a way attacking the validity
CT the Going law. The supreme court
today upheld the decision on the
lower court in filming Hickey.
Dunn Divorce Invalid.
Mrs. Bessie Stark Dunn of Pine
Bluff probably believes she is free
from entangling matrimonial all
ances, but the supreme court today
held that She did not have legoi
ground 10 be divorced from her hush'
and, A. V. Dunn, and reversed the de-
cision of the Jefferson chancery
court, remanding it with directions.
The supreme court ruled that the
grounds on which the divorce was
granted were not sufficient.
Children Get $50 Each.
An interesting case appealed from
the Saline circuit court, in which Ed
die Davis and Genie Davis, two minors
sued the Rock Island railway for dam
ages for charging them fares, was
decided against the railroad. Eddie
Davis is a minor under twelve years
Of age, while his sister is under five
years old. The former was charged
full fare while the little girl was
charged half fare. The law prescrlb9s
that children under twelve may ride
for half fare and child under I'VE
years is exempted from any fare
when accompanied by an adult. The
railroad con tested the suit on Sev-
eral grounds, among which was one
claiming that the children were NOT
aggrieved, not having paid their own
fares. The contention was overruied
by the supreme court, as Were otner
contentious OF the railroad. Judg-
ments of $50 for each child were at
firmed.
Claim Agent Wise.
Miss Susie Armstrong of Mena Lost
$4,000 through decision OF the SUI
preme court today. Miss Armstrong
was injured in a wreck while ell
route from Mena to Wickes, but be-
lieving herself uninjured effected a
settlement with the railroad company
(the Kansas City Southern) in the
sum of SO. Later it developed That
she was injured internally. Suit was
then brought and she obtained yer
dict in the Sewer circuit court for
81, 500. The supreme court IN us de-
clSlOn today nelQ tndl lAo sol'1on>-
bound Miss Armstrong and that She
could not recover additional damages
| from the company. The case was re-
versed and dismissed. Miss Arm-
strong was hurt June II, 1911.
Damage Case Reversed.
D. w. Cantwell and E. R. Tucker,
engineer and fireman, respectively,
sued H. D. Williams, owner OF saw.
mill in Cleburne county, for perscnal
injuries occurring when an engine on
which they were working plunged
Through a bridge. The engine belong
I ed to Williams and the bridge was on
his land. Cantwell recovered SLOT
and Tucker 1925 when suing in the
C,eburne circuit court. The supreme
court reversed the case because OF
errors in allowing certain evidence
but with instructions for retr,sl
| Judge Kirby dissented to the opin-
ion
| Decisions Rendered.
The following opinions were rem
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