Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — RECENT LEGAL DECISIONS. [ARTICLE]

RECENT LEGAL DECISIONS.

A finding that a railroad company is guilty of negligence for failing to keep Its platform lighted for fifteen or twenty minutes to enable passengers to pass out safely. Is held by the Supremo Court of Arkansas in the case of St. Louis, etc., Railway Company vs. Battle (63 S. W. Rep., 805), not to b« unreasonable.

A structure connecting two buildings on opposite sides of a street, built so far above the street as not to interfere with traffic thereon, Is held by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, In the case of Townsend vs. Epstein (49 Atl. Rep., 029), to be a nuisance ns to adjacent property owners, whose light It obstructs. The renewal by a new note of a usurious note, but excluding all the usury, Is held by the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine in the case of Verrnule vs. Vermule (49 Atl. Rep., 608), to render the new note valid and binding on the maker, as the parties themselves have done what a court of equity would require them to do. Where mining stock is deposited under a binding escrow agreement that it shall pass to a certain person on th# payment of n certain price within a certain time, and the price is paid by such time, the Supreme Court of Utah in the case of Clark vs. Campbell (65 Pac. Rep., 496), bolds that dividends declared before the price is paid do not belong to the purchaser. A fair association which maintained a race track on Its fair grounds negligently made an opening in the fence surrounding the track, and through this opening a horse ran from the track among the people assembled on the majn part of tbe fair ground. Injuring one of the spectators. The court (Appellate court of Indiana) held tbe fair association liable for the injury on the ground that the cause of the Injury was the failure to inclose properly the track. (Wandeler vs. Rush County Fair Association, 60 N. E. Rep., 954.)