Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1891 — His Claims Defeated. [ARTICLE]

His Claims Defeated.

Etiquette is responsible for a queer legal decision. A traveler on a German railway train attempted to eat a lunch, and while in the act of conveying food to his mouth the train suddenly stopped, and his cheek was badly cut on the edge of the knife he was using. The man sued the company for damages, but his claim was defeated on the ground that it was a breach of etiquette for him to eat with a 1 ”ife. The Court recited unto him the chestnut that “a man cannot take advantage of his own wrong-doing. ”