The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-16
HER JAWS CLICK.
why Pretty Miss Margaret Dunn Sued Has
brook, the DENTIST

why Pretty Miss Margaret Dunn Sued Has
brook, the Dentist.
New York World.
A peculiar case came before Judge OGorman,
in the Superior Court, Thursday morning.
Margaret Dunn. very pretty brunette, twenty
three years old. sued Ferdinand Hasbrook,
Broadway dentist, for So 900 damages The
facts were these: On the 18th of November,
1885. Miss Dunn was suffering from
brooks office and had the first two molars
in her upper jaw drawn bv of the assist
ants. She went home and lived diet Of tea
and milk for some days. After the swelling had
subsidized she began to eat solid food. To her
alarm she found that when she went to chew
her jaw clicked moderately She laughed, and
her laugh died away the click of CLOCK.
The clicking operation was accompanied by
intense pain. and at times it compelled her to
stay in bed. Hence the suit for damages. At
the first trial the foregoing was practically
Miss Dunns testimony The defendant testl-
fed that Miss Dunn had come to his office and
had two teeth extracted This was two years
ago He did not see her again until May of last
year, when she came and said she was suffering
intense pain. He made an examination, but
found apparently no trouble. The clicking
might exist, he said, but it was probably caused
by yawnng, laughing or biting some hasd sub
stance. It was probably the latter, as. accord
ing to Miss Dunns testimony, she was not trou-
bled with the clicking until she had eaten some
thing In q downtown restaurant. This part of
the testimony excited general smile.
Then DIR. Frank Abbott. one of the defendants
witnesses. went up to Miss Dunn and requested
her to open her mouth. She did So and after
looking into the pink cavern he asked her to
work her jaw. Click, click, went the recontrie
Joints and DR.. Abbott acknowledged he heard
the mysterious sound. The jury solemnly
eazed at the pretty mouth and then gravely
whispered to each other. Next DIR. Ed
man with silky beard. explained
that the mysterious noise caused by the
stretching of the ligaments of the jaw. He said
that every time Miss Dunn would laugh at a
Joke or try to masticate a beefsteak the jaw
would click. thereby causing much incon-
yhnience to the owner. It could be
cured but must click forever This seemed
to impress the jury. and they were so
silent that when juror asked
Miss Dunn some questions they easily
heard that fatal click. It looked like verdict
for the fair complainant, but ponderous medical
works were brought out by the Defendants
lawyers and passages were read showing that
people could easily get a clicking jaw from num-
erous causes besides having moiars extracted.
Then it was averred it would be dreadful should
the verdict be found for the plaintiff for every
body who sat in the dentists chair might claim
they had clicking jaw and get big damages
Then the judge explained the difference between
.'click" and ''cack,"> and the jury filed out to
consider the case. An hour passed and they
did not return. The hands of the clock had
travelled the Circuit of the hour several times be-
fore they did come in. They had considered
the case and their decision against the girl
with the clicking jaws. Dentist Hasbrook
smiled as the verdict wrs given.
Miss Dunn is the housskeeper at the Hotel
Winthrop Sixth avenue, and would not
talk last evening about the trial. It 10 claimed
that the night air is very bad for her peculiar
malady. DIR. Weed says that the disease is IN
durable, and is a serious drawback for Miss
Dunn.