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...HENSLEY JR. San Juan...
...case involved Gaidry Motors, of Lexington, which sold a used car to William Hensley. He drove it 14 blocks, and as he stepped on the brakes approaching an intersection, the brakes grabbed and locked. The car skidded wildly into a curb and struck a pedestrian, Albert Brannon, crushing his left leg. He sued Gaidry Motors...
...leak in the grease cell of a rear wheel had caused the brakes to lock, the court said, and Gaidry Motors knew about the leak, because the man who sold them the car told them about it. Thus, Gaidry Motors should have warned Hensley. In awarding $11,489.95 to Brannon, the court said: "The used-car dealer is in a better position . . . than his average customer to discover what defects might exist in any particular car ... It is not too harsh a rule to require these dealers to use reasonable care in inspecting used cars before resale to discover these...
...astounded, and Circuit Court Judge Astor Hogg just had time to get his jaws ajar and allow it was "the beginning of a new era" when the Beach boys, who dabble in bootlegging, drove into downtown Harlan, the county seat, and fired six bullets into 45-year-old Avery Hensley, a former cop. In the words of Kentucky's standard indictment form, Avery Hensley "did then & there die." Six hours later, Avery's stepson Joe Hensley was sitting in a parked car outside the bus terminal when two Harlan policemen and a friend got out of a police...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Herbert Hensley Henson, 83, sharp-tongued onetime (1920-39) Anglican Bishop of Durham, England; near Ipswich, England. One of the first British critics of the Nazis and their antiSemitism, Bishop Henson made many enemies with his scathing denunciations of the Oxford Group, Edward VIII's marriage, the U.S. ("a conspicuous illustration of the folly of neglecting the moral factor in life"), and the U.S.S.R. "with its hideous doctrine of mechanized humanity...