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        LAW - AS IT SHOULD BE

   Two gentlemen were walking down the avenue, when they
saw a well dressed, attractive woman walking in front of them.
Said one:  "I'd give $50.00 to spend the night with that woman."
To their surprise, the young woman overheard the remark,
turned around and said:  "I'll take you up on that."
   After bidding his companion goodnight, he accompanied the
lady to her lovely apartment, where they immediately went to bed.
   The following morning, the man prepared to leave, and
presented her with $25.00.  She demanded the rest of the money
saying "If you don't give me the other $25.00 -- as you
promised--I'll sue you."  He laughed and said:  "I'd like to see
you get it on those grounds," and he left.
   The next day, he was surprised to receive a summons,
ordering him to be in court as a "Defendant in a law suit."  He
hurried to his lawyer and explained the details of the case.  The
lawyer said:  "She can't possibly get judgement against you on
such grounds, but it will be interesting to see how the case is
presented."
   After the usual preliminaries the lady's lawyer presented the
case to the court as follows.  "Your Honor, my client, this lady, is
the owner of a piece of property.  A garden spot, surrounded by
a profuse growth of shrubbery.  She agreed to rent it to the
Defendant, for a specific length of time for the sum of $50.00.  The
Defendant took possession of the property, used it for the purpose
for which it was rented, but on the evacuation of the premises he
paid only $25.00, one-half the amount agreed upon.  The rent
was not expensive, since the restricted property was not available
to all.  We therefore ask judgment be granted the Plaintiff to assure
payment of the balance."
   The Defendant's lawyer was impressed at the way his
opponent presented the case.  He then presented his defense.
"Your Honor, my client agrees that the lady has a fine piece of
property, that he did rent such property for a specific time, and
did derive a degree of pleasure from the transaction.  However,
my client found a well on the property, around which he placed
his own stones, sunk a shaft, and erected a pump, all labor
being performed personally by him.  We claim these
improvements to the property were sufficient to offset the rental
of such property.  We therefore ask judgement NOT be granted."
   The young lady's lawyer had this comeback.
   "Your Honor, my client agrees that the Defendant did find a
well on the property, and that he did make improvements, , such
as my opponent has described.  However, had the Defendant
not known the well existed, he would never have rented the
property.  Also, upon evacuation of the premises, the Defendant
removed the stones, pulled out the shaft, and took his pump with
him.  In doing so, he not only dragged his equipment through the
shrubbery, but left a hole much larger that it was prior to his
occupancy, making it easily accessible to trespassers.  We
therefore ask judgement be granted . . ."
   She got it!