Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1917 — LATEST THINGS IN LAWSUITS [ARTICLE]

LATEST THINGS IN LAWSUITS

Italian Officer Claimed Bullet That Shot Him and Got It—Swiss Resented Loss of Thirst An Italian officer who was wounded In the Trentino has just brought an action to obtain a decision as to the rightful ownership of a bullet extracted from his body. Both doctor and nurse claimed it, but the officer contended that it was. legally iris. The judge gave the decision in the officer’s favor by a noval line of argument. He found that the projectile, once discharged from the gun, ceased both to belong to the man who fired it and which Intrusted it to him. It thus became, while on its way to Its billet, a res nullus, which any finder is entitled to pick up and keep. The officer found it in his body. It was only brought to light by the surgeon, assisted by the nurse. Hence the officer was entitled to keep it. Which sounds a good deal like much ado about nothing. ’ Some weeks ago an abbe left a French village to take up the incumbency of another, and the mayor and his late flock lit a bonfire in the road to speed their departing parson, making merry at his expense and showing unmistakably the joy they felt at seeing his back. Naturally the abbe thought himself insulted and brought an action for damages, but as he could not show any the case was dismissed. _ A very stout man recently bought a third-class ticket at a roadside station in England, and found that he could not get into a third-class compartment. So he went into a first, the doors of which are wider, refusing to pay the excess. He was sued for the balance and had to pay both that and the costs, the court holding that this could not be his first offense, and. knowing that he could not squeeze through the door of a third, he ought to have booked first without more ado. After telling a barber to trim his beard, a farmer fell asleep in the chair. He was awakened by the application of a wet towel to his face, and, looking in the glass, was not sure whether the barber had awakened him or some other fellow. He had gone to sleep with a beard two feet long and woke up clean shaved. His whiskers, of which he was very proud, had all gone. He sued the barber for SI,OOO and got SIOO. A certain inhabitant of Switzerland had a most splendid thirst, which he plied daily with stimulants. His sister secretly put a drink cure into his potations, which had the magical effect of curing him of his craving, and rendering drink obnoxious. So angry was he when he learned the truth that he sued his sister for $5,000 for the loss of his thirst!