VALUE OF LOST LIMBS.
SOME COURT ASSESSMiENTSb Few people have the same view on thq mcaietary value of an ear, and not many, I think, would sacrifice one for £BOO, as a Chicago .woman is reported to be dloiing, writes a correspondent in an English' paper, judge Cluer a short time ago declared that a finger was worth mC[re than £5O, while the valuq of a nose was assessed at £450 in an action at Toronto. The human eye has been rated as the most valuable part of th© body, no less than £50,000 being, awarded an American doctor who lopt the sight of one of his eyes in an accident. A smilq, equals £l2O in the eyes of the law. At least this was the sum socured by a Paris mannequin to look pleasant who claimed £2500. An American dancer yvas given £5060 fojr t'hq loss of a leg, but many famous dancers have insured their limbs for much higher amounts than that. Nothing varies more; than the values put on the human frame as a whole. A wife’s worth' has been put at 2s 6d by one judge 'and £lO,OOO by another. The value of a husband to his wife was in 'One case put at such a meagrq amount as threepence.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5359, 3 December 1928, Page 4
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214VALUE OF LOST LIMBS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5359, 3 December 1928, Page 4
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