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The Crime local tmﬁic within ﬁve days after the time they were ordered by the shipper, and the railway having appealed, the United States Supreme Court on April 4 decided that the state of Arkansas could not thus burden interstate commerce, Mr. Justice White writing the opinion. St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. v. Railroad Commission. See Carriers, Interstate Commerce.

Real Property. Evidence of Structural Value of Buildings Admissible in Condem nation Proceedings. N. Y. In Matter of Blackwell's Island Bridge Approach, the New York Court of Appeals modiﬁed the rule which has hitherto pre vailed in that state in ascertaining the value of real estate, according to which rule the improvements are treated as incidental to the fee and valued by the introduction of expert testimony. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court had upheld this rule in the condemnation proceedings here re viewed, but the Court of Appeals reversed the decision March 4, substituting the follow ing doctrine (N. Y. Law Jour., March 21):— "It is common knowledge," said Judge Werner, “that buildings not only differ

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from each other in design, arrangement and structure, but that many which are extremely similar and are situate upon adjoining lands are essentially diﬁerent in the quality and ﬁnish of the materials used and in the character of the workmanship employed upon them. It must follow that such differences contribute in varying degree to the enhancement in the value of the land, and we can think of no way in which they can be legally proved except by resort to testimony of structural value, which is but another name for cost of repro duction, after making proper deductions for Wear and tear." Trademarks. Unfair Trade in Ure of Similar Trade Nme for Two Periodical Publie cations. Penn. In Suburban Press v. Philadelphia Suburban Publishing Company, decided by the Pennsyl vania Supreme Court in January, the plaintiff, the publisher of Suburban Life. was granted a decree enjoining the defendant from using the trade name Philadelphia Suburban Life. The Court (Magill, J.) said that the use of the

name adopted by the defendant would result in an "unfair, unjust and fraudulent advan tage."

The Crime BY DANIEL H. PRIOR

EARFUL of a direful fate, The prisoner a-tremble stood, Wond’ring if the maiden would shamelessly her tale relate To a heartless magistrate. The judge began with smile bland

And read the charge: “ ‘Tis larceny You stole a ln'ss, ’twas petty." But she, on the witness stand,

Testified that it was grand.