The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-02-06
SMASHED LECIS
WORTH S17,500
Old Man Statistics Does Some
Investigating Into Suits
for Damages.
PRICE SET BY JURiES VARIES
Loss of Arm is Valued at From $500 to
$50, OOO-One Man Demands $25, 900
for. "H narrowing Experience
$500 for Half Mouse in Pie.

New York-Old Man Statistics is
loose again Now he comes forward
to say that if you contemplate losing
a leg and suing for damages the sum
you ask Will average around $4,000
If YOU lose an eye, your reputation
in fact anything-the average remains
the same, says he. But the sum you
will get (if you win) he declares, Will
be considerably lower-S17,300-
The price of a leg. as decided by
various and sundry iuries varies from
$500 to $50, O0O. What makes for
this wide range in value of pedal eN-
tremitfes was simple in the old days
when juries consisted of men only. but
ii is different now. One is left in a
quandary.
Damages Total $29, SOY, 1925.
There was a total of approximately
SOS. 5O7, 125 involved in suits last year
in the metropolitan district. That
against William NJ. Baldwin, capital
ist. for SIT 100000 was the largest
A number of cases involved odd com
plants.
Not so long ago man demanded
$4,000 for a .'harrowing' experience
he had while being chased about
ship by a mailman.
An actress decided to take heroic
measures to reduce. She consulted
surgeon as to the advisability of hay
ing it .scut off, She forgot one thing
that the operation would leave scars
and she alleged in court they forever
married her aesthetic" beauty.
She admitted, however, that '.sev-
eral', pounds of flesh had been re-
moved and her figure was more grace
FIJI than before. The jury decided the
figure was worth the money the sur
geon charged
Somebody hit young matron with
the wrong side of slap stick, loaded
with a blank cartridge. She was be
ing Initiated into the mysteries of the
Modern Order OF Praetorians and was
leaning over to kiss the altar when
the undignified incident occurred The
flash of the powder raised a blister
which she thought was worth $4,000.
$500 for Half Mouse in Pie.
One of the Youngest compliments in
a suit was Il four-months-oid child.
The defendant was a DOCTOR who was
alleged to have so injured the com
plainant when he brought him into the
world as to have permanently i'm
paired his health. Another child re-
covered damages for a prenatal injury
received when his mother fell through
a coal hole, the lid of which had been
removed.
One woman demanded $1,000 for find
ing half Il mouse in piece of mince
pie given her in a restaurant.
A boy valued his ability to smile |
at S20.0 600 and the jury agreed with |
lim.
If a guest of yours should happen !
% fall over one of your rugs and |
fracture his nose you need have no |
ear if he should sue you. The Su- |
,reme court held in a case of this kind |
hat the host is not responsible for
all on a loose rug.
Backs. arms legs, ribs, toes, fingers
loses, jaws, hearts, resolutions, vows
nd everything else breakabe were
roken during the year. For these
INJURIES the litigants sought from $500
O 100000.
Amputations too, were manifold.
)ne child got $4,000 for the loss of
our toes. Another got 100000 for the
)ss of two hands. They were the
Ugh records for cases of that sort.
The lowest award on record was that
f Bronx woman who sued the Ma
ona1 Biscuit company for 50, 600 be-
ause a splinter in one of the biscuits
20 would just about cover the cost.
R1Icyrus O-The little, red brick |