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(SUG)JESTIVE CASES. IV. CHARLOTTE JOHNSON v. ARTHUR J. GLIDDEN, Supreme Court of South Dakota, 1898, 76 N. W. • Rep. 933. FACTS. It chanced that Earnest Glidden (defendant's minor son) By hook or crook had come to have a doublebarrel gun. He sported it with glee; like death, he loved a shin ing mark; He In short, shot itheere was thea sun nuisance was up, to he theshot neighborhood it after darkat; large, And every day some novel prank was reckoned to his charge. He Thewouldn't loving father interfere heard to spoil of these therepeatedly pleasure of; his but pet. yet

One day, as Charlotte Johnson (the plaintiff suing here) Led out her colt to water, she saw the youth appear, Loaded for sport; and as the colt approached the watering trough, The wicked boy discharged the gun close to his head; when off! Off! went the colt like fun; and off, alas! went Char lotte too, Though not a lass in such a way as friends would care to view; For, somehow, round her ankles the treacherous rope got twined, And suddenly she shot ahead, her balance under mined; Then, head o'er heels behind the colt she followed Bound fiercewith and the fast,rope, expecting every moment was her last. Anon she 'd gain her feet and almost grasp her captor colt, And then her balance lose again, as off he 'd freshly bolt; And while in this unequal yoke they scoured the praine o'er, And countless bumps had made each bone in Char lotte's body sore, Defendant's Earnest boy stood by the trough and gazed thereafter. And as he viewed the sportive sight, he doubled up with laughter.

Laughter, though loud, not long, for when — But let us draw the curtain Over the scene with Pater that same night. But this is certain, 'Tis vain to lock the stable door after the horse is And had taken Pater shaken
 * found he would have .gained if only he

The targe nonsense out of Earnest ere he had made a Of Charlotte's colt. The gun bore now an action For followed able next charge day fast;came a sheriff's writ, and then there

Court, till atjury, last lawyers, plaintiff's tears, and so forth; And The resort. wrought verdict now he files him exceptions guilty ofinthethe damage court Earnest of last
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DEFENDANT'S EXCEPTIONS. About 'Tis The His Shan't On Pay Have children's dad just his father's sinned, the every own be and blameless made sins. score wild right why, heads to young ?(so then Yet to suffer? father's Or Scripture visit ifhow duffer must, thehead issons instead, itruns) ?

The common law (we Ve thought) has said The former view was right; Hereon we pray this Court to shed Its valuable light. OPINION OF THE COURT OF SOUTH DAKOTA. You It's that your useless can't here to by sayantique your sonrules, 's no the agent, antics and all of
 * brat.escape,

'Tis true, no law has penalized the fact of having But guns. sons it 's; a very different thing to let those sons have

It's up to you to settle, on the maxim of Sic u/ere, And though 'tis true your boy, and not yourself, was here the shooter, he Was yours to govern; you, in re your scion's deeds, are scicns;