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...protected by the law were people like milkmen, repairmen and insurance agents, who were called to do business. Last in line to collect for injury were social guests and trespassers, both of whom had to take the premises as they found them, regardless of dangers. All the owner or tenant owed them, it went on, was to refrain "from wanton or willful injury." Not any more, said the influential California Supreme Court last month. Reversing a lower court damage-suit decision, it found such categorization of victims obsolete. Henceforth, even a gate crasher who trips over a royal palm stump...
...sight of grinding poverty stalking the land in slum areas and on tenant farms is saddening enough, but it is difficult to find a name to fit the man who would exploit the misery and suffering of those less fortunate than himself by threatening to use them in massive marches, sit-ins and camp-outs, demanding speedups on his own terms to tremendous social and economic changes already afoot in the land...
Last week that racial refrigeration nearly dissolved in smoke. Not far from Springfield Avenue, site of last sum mer's worst rioting, flames emptied a three-story tenement, then rapidly blew through the area. "Most of these houses are nothing more than reinforced card board," said one tenant. The worst fire in Newark's history razed 1½ blocks and left more than 500 residents with out shelter...
...REPORTS: "HUNGER IN AMERICA" (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Reporter David Culhane visits Virginia tenant farmers, Alabama sharecroppers, Arizona Indians and Texas Mexican-Americans to dramatize the plight of some 4,000,000 Americans who suffer from malnutrition...
...Simple Rule. In the California case, Security Insurance Co. of New Haven had refused to settle the claim of a tenant who had fallen through a faulty wooden staircase. The victim later developed a severe psychosis. The landlady, who had to pay up as a result of the insurance company's refusal, was forced to sell off her assets. She became indigent, eventually lost her health and attempted suicide. She sued Security, and the California Supreme Court finally upheld an award that covered the excess she had had to pay over the insurance limit, plus damages for the mental...