UNQUENCHABLE THIRST
PENSION OF £lO 16/- MONTHLY
A Budapest court has just awarded an estate manager, Ladislaw Almassy, an allowance of £lO 16s a month because he is afflicted with an “un queue-liable” thirst. Almassy has had a constant and expensive thirst since he was injured in a motor-cycle accident in which his employer, Dejoe Becker, was killed. As he was a passenger In Becker’s side-car, Almassy brought an action against his employer’s heirs, claiming a pension of £lB a month. Almassy told the judge that if he were deprived of costly preventive medicines he would be obliged to drink from 17J to 28 pints a day.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1070, 6 September 1930, Page 26
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107UNQUENCHABLE THIRST Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1070, 6 September 1930, Page 26
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