. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. so that such a person mightacquire a residence at once. Well,Morey, like some of our other multi-millionaires, got quite into the re-marrying habit. The great case ofFlannagan v. Morey grew out of oneof his aerial trips. You know that in many of thetall flat and tenement houses in NewYork, where there is little yard space, 124 THE BUSY MANS MAGAZINE. it is customary to hang out the familywash on lines stretched from buildingto building. Each floor has its ownseries of lines, so that by elevenoclock on any Monday morning theinterior of the block looks l
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. so that such a person mightacquire a residence at once. Well,Morey, like some of our other multi-millionaires, got quite into the re-marrying habit. The great case ofFlannagan v. Morey grew out of oneof his aerial trips. You know that in many of thetall flat and tenement houses in NewYork, where there is little yard space, 124 THE BUSY MANS MAGAZINE. it is customary to hang out the familywash on lines stretched from buildingto building. Each floor has its ownseries of lines, so that by elevenoclock on any Monday morning theinterior of the block looks like aglorified bargain day at a White Sale. Well, Moreys big airship waspassing across Seventh Avenue a littlenorth of Ii6th Street, when it wasthought necessary to descend sud-denly. They threw out a grapplingrope and then changed their the anchor rose in the air, theywere horrified to find that they hadtaken with them the weeks washof forty families—ten floors and fourfamilies to the floor. *I suppose that caused no end of. Fortified with these, a row% I ventured, throwing an extrawrap about my shoulders. The airhad become perceptibly cooler. I should think so, the judge wenton. Morey refused to compromise,and the suits were all tried and inmost cases substantial damages re-covered. How did they get hold of Morey ?I asked. Indicted him for larcency andhad him brought back from NewJersey, said Judge Reardon. Itwas a serious question in the courtswhether he could be said to have fledthe jurisdiction, as he had not set footin New York. The United States Supreme Court held in Morey of Hudson County, by a voteof six to three, that a person who hadsailed across a State boundary in anairship had fled in the strictestetymological and constitutional of the Harlem people went overto New Jersey and sued Morey therefor trespass de bonis asportatis. Oneman got twenty dollars for the lossof his pajamas; but the judgment wasby a divided court. Judge Reardon
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