DECISIONS OF THE COURTS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 356, 5 March 1903, Page 8

DECISIONS OF THE COURTS.

In an action for divorce in Kentucky (he court of appeals of that state in the case of Lambert vs. Lambert (63 S. W. Bep., 614), holds that neither the husband nor the wife is a competent witness against the other. Where a strip of land is conveyed as •n "alley." the supreme court of Illinois holds that a private alley hj meant, and the court also held that a : private alley cannot become public, except by condemnation, by grant, or by dedication. > An office of a hotel is a public place within a city ordinance providing for ; punishment of any persons quarreling or wrangling in a public place, according to the supreme court of Kansas, in the case of City of Howard vs. " Stroud (65 Pae. Bep., 247). { in North Carolina a note indorsed -and transferred by a married woman, without her husband's knowledge or 'Consent, does not vest the title in the indorsee, according to the supreme court of that state in the case of Vann vs. Edwards (39 S. E. Sep., 66). One who makes an excavation upon his land is not bound to so guard it as to prevent injury to children who come upon it without his invitation, express or implied, but who are induced to do so merely by the alluring ■attractiveness of the excavation and 'its surroundings. | A person who uses a nontransferable mileage ticket and who signs the name of the owner of the ticket, is not guilty of forgery, holds the supreme court of Missouri in the case of Mertieles vs. Wabash Bailway company , (63 3. W. Bep., 718), provided he was -authorized by the owner to sign hit •same. i In a prosecution for murder, where at is claimed that the death of the deceased was caused by a blow on the •head, the court of criminal appeals of Texas in the case of Minson vs. State '<63 S. W. Bep., 647), holds that a photograph showing the condition of the brain of the deceased, after removal <of the skull, is admissible In evidence.