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Q.—How many times a year would you be on the raw sugar docks? A.—Twice a year.

Q.—How often were you in the dock department offices? A.—Only five or six times in twenty-five years.

Q.—Were you ever in the scale houses? A.—Never.

At this point the court adjourned until this afternoon when the direct examination of Mr. Green will be continued.

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Mr. Hiller, Mr. Hart's attorney, then asked Mrs. Hart why it was necessary to have so many gowns.

"At Palm Beach I had to change my gowns three times a day, and I had to have outfits of automobile clothes besides," said Mrs. Hart.

"Do you wear the same dinner gown twice?" said the attorney.

"Women who can afford it never wear the same gown again at the same place," she replied smilingly.

"What do you pay for your dinner gowns?"

"Three hundred dollars; sometimes five or six hundred."

"Apiece?"

"Certainly," snapped back the witness.

Court Decisions. The body of reports of important court decisions consists of summaries of the decisions with explanation of their significance, or of quotations from the decision when the language of the decree is important. The following stories are examples:

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The first decision of the court of commerce to be received by the supreme court of the United States was reversed in an opinion handed down today.

The highest court gave a signal victory to the interstate commerce com