Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-18
RENTER RESPONSIBLE FOR
 ALL TALK TOLLS
Supreme Court Upholds the Right of Telephone Com
 pany to Enforce Rule.
STATE ELECTS TO
 TRY DAVIS AGAIN
JOnesbcrO Merchant Was Sentenced to Serve 100 Days and Pay $500 Fine in Each of Ten Cases of Sell.
 ing Liquor.

Little Rock, May 17.-When a long distance call is made over telephone, the renter of that telephone is liable for the charge, irrespective of whe- ther he has 70. K'd" it. according to a supreme court decision made today. The supreme court held that the per- son renting the telephone was re- sponsible. and that the regulation responsible was reasonable and that the telephone companies have right to enforce it.
 The decision was based on a suit appealed from Craighead county. Sharp and White of oJnesboro, court reporters, had declined to pay for calls not 70. K.'d" by them. The company thereupon refused to give them credit for their own personal long distance calls. Suit for punitive damages was filed in the Craighead circuit court and judgment of $175 was awarded. The verdict was re- versed and the case dismissed.
 Another Chance for Davis.
 The state has elected to have ten verdicts each sentencing c. H. Davis, prominent merchant at .Jonesboro, to 100 days in jail and fining him $500, each term to be served at the expiration of the preceding one, re- versed and to retry the cases, than to take conviction in one case and dis miss the other nine. The lower court erred in consolidating the cases over the objection of the defendant, accord ing to the supreme court, which handed down it's decision several weeks ago. The supreme court said the evidence warranted conviction, however, and gave the state the choice of taking verdict in one case and dismissing the other nine, or taking a reversal, because of the error by teh lower court, in all The state to- day announced it would take re- versal in all. Davis was convicted on 10 counts of illegal sale of liquor.
 County Warrants Deal.
 An interesting deal in county war rants was shown up in decision of the supreme court today in the case of Monroe county against l.. K. Brown and others. Warrants for $S each had been issued to pay amounts due for work of $6, the additional g in each instance of offset the discount on county scrip. Other warrants for var ious amounts were issued on slml- lar basis. The warrants, it appeared, were issued on an understanding be- tween a county judge and persons to whom the money was due.
 Later county judge called Tn all scrip and warrants to reissue and classify them. The county judge, apo parently a different one from the one issuing the warrants in question, re- fused to reissue the warrants to the persons who had received scrip for more than was due them, holding the original warrants fraudulent. The case was taken into the Monroe cir cult court, which held the revised war rants must be issued The supreme court affirmed the verdict.
 Girl Fails to Clear Betrayef. Monroe Shands of Sevier county must serve one year in the state penl- tentiary for a statutory offense, al though the girl prosecuting witness declared. after once accusing Shands, that he was guiltless. The supreme court ruling affirming the one-year sentence said the girl apparently was not responsible for or in sympatny
 with the prosecution. The high court held. however, that the girls declara- ton of the innocence of Shands did not clear him as there was other evl- dence tending to show that he was
 guilty and that the girl perjured her. self.
 Decisions Rendered.
 The following opinions were dellV- cred and proceedings had in the su- preme court today:
 By Chief Justice McCulloch: Monroe county vs. l.. K. Brown ct al., appeal from Monroe circuit court; affirmed.
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