The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-14
NOVEL PO|NTSOFLAW
PASSED ON BY COURTS
FAMOUS CASE IN IOWA is SET.
TIED AFTER 20 YEARS OF
LITIGATION.

IN the ceiSpiuttu JULIUS county Call
Case" which began in 1874 and con.
tlnued for 20 years, is reported from
Iowa, where he passed away at the
age of IT, Among the features of the
calf litigation We're the following:
Four calves, the market value OF
which was S25, We're the cause Of the
greatest lawsuit In the history of Am
erican Jurisprudence. The litigation
started by their sale extended over a
period Of 20 years, was tried in seven
different counties, before ia jurors
was four times appealed to the su-
preme court of the state, entailing fees
amounting to $4,000 for an army OF
lawyers, and concluded with a final
Judgment for $1,000 and court costs
amounting to $2S86S4.
This litigation-a monument 70 the
cost at which legal redress may be Sc
cured by a persistent litigant-is
known as the Jones County Calf
Case" from Jones county, Iowa.
Their Accustomed Places.
Legal Laughs tells the following:
Here is a story which Baron Douse,
the celebrated Irish Judge, once told
in that exaggerated Irish "brogue"
which he loved to employ: Il was
down in Cork last month, holding as.
sizes. on the first day, when the jury
came in, the officer Of the court said
Gentlemen ay the jury, yen take your
accustomed places, if We place And
may | never laugh" said the baron,
IF they didn't all walk into the dock"
Some time ago when H. H. Riley,
then Of Constantine, Mich, was prose-
cutting attorney, writes Judge ]. w
Donovan, butcher was charged with
stealing COW and killing her and
selling the beef The proof was cir
cumstantial. The owner of the COW
saw hide hung up in the meat shop
which he recognized as that of his lost
animal. The defense had made
strong appeal, and the prosecuting at
torney was prepared to make on elo-
quent argument when the butchers
boy rushed into court, all out Of
breath, saying; PA! The COW has
come home" There she was, sure
enough, standing at the owners gate
and anxious to get into the yard. Find
Not guilty" was the courts order to
the jury.
Not Liable for UnintentionaI Injury.
The court of criminal appeals of
Texas in Calvert VS.. State holds that
the defendant was not guilty Of an ag-
grevated assault, in a case where the
complaining witness called the accused
a liar and was struck by him and as
result of the blow the witness fell
and fractured his skull. The court
said:
1.-The striking of the auto or the
curbing, either or both, was the re-
suit, 1t is true, of the fall, but it was
accidental and evidently not in con-
temptation. 1t would be straining the
facts beyond any legitimate conclusion
to hold that appellant contemplated
that he would strike either the auto or
the curbing, or that he even would fall,
as the witnesses testified the blow was
slight.
THE meeting seems to have been
purely accidental and the fight came
up in the manner stated. The result
was not a necessary or intended re-
,,,1N
dition of the evidence we are OF the
opinion that aggravated assault was
not in the case
OF Interest to Automobile Owners.
The case of Granger vs.. Farrant be-
fore the supreme court of Michigan Is
one of the first in which ruling Is
made as to liability for injuries re-
sulting from crowding an automopl@
off the road The court held that the
driver of an automobile who over
takes and passes another car at such
speed and turns to the right side OF
the road so close to it as to disconcert
its driver by striking the car ana
causing it to swerve over the en-
bankment Is liable for the injury
thereby inflicted upon the occupants
of the car, although the blow was not
sufficient to propel the car over the
embankment
Hunor of German Justice.
The Green Bag gives the following
instances Of humor in German courts
I'm Berlin not long ago an ironWorN-
er was sent to prison because he hau
laughed at a policeman. 1t appears
that as this man was proceeding along
q street one day his risibilities were
aroused by the sight of particularly
stout policeman giving chase to a oog'
The offender was promptly haled u
court and sent up for scandal.
"a German in attempting to boaru
a moving train, fractured his leg After
six months in q hospital he was as
charged, whereupon the State railway
department at once prosecuted MN
for infringement of regulations lie
was fined sum equivalent to 80"
Upon entering an omnibus a man
trod on the foot Of a woman who was
so incensed by the incident that she
remarked that he walked like men
For this term of reproach the lady was
fined 20 marks"
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