Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — LATE LEGAL DECISIONS. [ARTICLE]

LATE LEGAL DECISIONS.

A regulation of a water company, by which it refuses to turn on water for a building until unpaid rates of previous owners or tenants are paid, is held, In Turner vs. Revere Water Company (Mass.), 40 L. R. A. 657, to be unreasonable and invalid, unless authorized by statute. The liability for goods stolen from a peddler’s cart in the custody of an innkeeper is upheld in Cohen vs. Manuel (Me.), 40 L. R. A. 491, although the peddler had no license to peddle, as he did not lodge at the inn as a peddler. The killing of a dog by an electric car in consequence of the motorman’s negligence is held, in Citizens’ RapidTransit Company vs. Dew (Tenn.), 40 L. R. A. 518, to render the street railway company liable for the damages. An agricultural and mechanical college which is strictly a public or quasipublic corporation created by the laws of Oklahoma is held, in Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College vs. Willis (Okla.), 40 L. R. A. 077, to be not subject to be sued in the absence of express statutory authority. The mere possibility of Injury by an unconstitutional statute, which may prevent insurance companies from making such contracts as persons might otherwise procure them to make, is held, in Business Men’s League vs. Waddill (Mo.), 40 L. R. A. 501, insufficient to sustain an injunction against tbe approval of a uniform policy of insurance under an unconstitutional statute by the superintendent of insurance.