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A Nice Little Legal Point

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
January
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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When be hwl comfortablysettled himself in a by the lawyer's desk lic saldi "Áttorney fortín' - road, ain't you?" "Yen, air. Vh:;t can I lo for you?" "V(.-il."sail thecaller, "when 1 waacomíiil; down town this moruing there was au accident." "You don't looU as if you had been iu jured." "I wiisn't." "Any of your friends hurt?" "No." "Well, wl:at's the matter, then?" "Now, wail i minute tí 11 I uetthrough," gaid the cnller. "1 hnd paid my tare to come down town- clear to the end of the line- but the company didn't bring me down. It didn't hrhvj, me lialf way." "Wliat of it?" "Don't be impwtient. 1 told the conductor I wanted sonie kind of aconveyance to (jet the rest of the way and he refused to pay for on e." "Well, I shoulü inniK newuuiu. "He also refnsed to returu my nickel." "Of course lie did." "But wheu 1 was wrocked between liere and St. Paul the company whose train wa wrecked sent me through by auother road without expense." "Uertaiuly. Implied contract, you know. Agreed to tak'e yoü to your destination whrñ ,!" I''M'1 l'"r.v"ul' i'oket." , ■ . ,. ' naid inv l.uvi.) tne eontlucIJllt ■Keil ■;, . ,. ,,, ent"" , , . , ave to do wlin; "Oh. your road doean't h'" it ngrees to?" s "Look here. Perhapw you" m "Now, wait. Don't get exdted. Wliat must a man do to get anything from your company ?" "Um, well, if your leg had been broken or if you had been killed in the acci dent" "What then, sir? What then?" asked the cal Ier with interest. "Why, then," aaid the lawyer reflectively, "we wou ld probably have pro ved contributory uefjlieence and sued you or your

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News