VALUE OF A LADY’S CALF.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9111, 2 April 1908, Page 6

VALUE OF A LADY’S CALF.

The value of a piece bitten out of the calf of a lady’s leg has given a French court some trouble recently. Mile. Marie Renault, a dressmaker, went into a furniture removal company’s shed to get certain articles belonging to her. The place was dark, and she inadvertently kicked against a dog with a litter of pup- < pies. The indignant dog went for the dressmaker, and bit a piece out of the calf of her leg.' Mile. Renault sued for the damage done, which she estimated at £6O. Counsel for the lady cried that his client was “disfigured.” “How can. she now find such a prize in the matrimonial market as she would have been entitled to expect before she lost the piece of her shapely limb?” he went on. Her claim for £6O was absurdly low and modest. Counsel on tiie other side bad the hardihood to be sarcastic, and the bad taste to inquire whether his learned friend was not “slightly exaggerating the sesthetie importance of the damage done. ” The court was the more- perplexed because the lady declined to show her calf, and the missing piece of it was not produced. At last, after considerable deliberation, the court ungallantly cut down her claim to.' £2O.