Transport: Skates

Circuit Judge William Richardson Hunter, 79, of Kankakee, Ill. has been a -member of the Bar for 55 years, a judge for only three. During the three he has built up a State-wide reputation for unusual decisions. Last year, for example, he recommended the re-establishment of the whipping post for wife-beaters and gun-toters. Last week he made a stir with one more resounding decision: that a person on roller skates is a "vehicle." Up before peppery Judge Hunter came the case of 12-year-old James Maas, crippled by the car of one J....

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