Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — Legal Information [ARTICLE]

Legal Information

A riparian owner la held, In Trullinger vs. Howe (Or.), 97 Eac. 548, 22 L. R. A. (N. S.) 545, to have no right to store the water of a floatable stream by means of splash dams, and sudden* ly release it to facilitate the floating of logs, to the injury of lower riparian owners. Accepting a plea of guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentencing the accused to death, without cautioning him as to the gravity of his admission, or taking evidence as to the circumstances of the crime, is held, in State vs Johnson, 21 Okla. 40, 96 Pac. 26, 22 L. R. A. (N. 8.) 463, not to be according to the forms of law. The relation of carrier and passenger is held, in Lockwood vs. Boston Kiev. R. Co., 200 Mass., 637, 86 N. B. 924. 22 L. R. A. (N. S.) 488, to be established when, in obedience to a signal, the motorman stops a street car, and, with the knowledge of the conductor, the Intending passenger steps and stands upon the running board, on his way to a seat. A labor union is held, in Lohse Pat ent Dooi; Co. vs. Fuelle, 215 Mo. 421, 114 S. W. 997, 22 L. R. A. (N. S.) 607, to be guilty of an illegal boycott by notifying, in pursuance of a conspiracy to injure the business of one against whom a strike has been declared, customers of such person that its members will not handle material furnished by him, and that any attempt on their part to force them to do so will cause ft strike to be called against them. One Jacob Woodring, addicted first to drink and as a consequence thereof 'to violence, was sold liquor, whereupon, following his natural bent, he became intoxicated, quarrelsome, vindictive and abusive, and his mental powers became deranged to such an extent that he made an unprovoked and deadly assault upon one Grosjean, who struck him so violently that his death ensued. In Woodring vs Jacobino, 103 Pacific Reporter, 809, the minor child of decedent sued the seller of the deranging elixir for damages for her father’s death. The Jury found that appellant had conducted a saloon; that he had sold liquors to Woodring, which intoxicated him, causing him to become involved ,n the disastrous altercation with Grosjean; that the liquor was purchased from appellant under circumstances which would have led a man of ordinary intelligence to believe intoxication would probably result therefjrom; and that respondent had sustained loss in her support and maintenance in the sum of S4OO. The Washington Supreme Court refused to disturb the Judgment of the trial court.