THE BORROWING "NERVE"
Tho plaintiff in an action for damages in the Supreme Court tQday classified his nerves. He said that since the accident in which he was involved his nerves had not been the same.
Ho had been previously cross-exam-ined at somo length as to the amount of liquor he was in the habit of taking. When ho spoke of his nervous condition, Mr. W. E. Leicester, counsel for the defendant, reminded him that his nerves had not prevented him from borrowing Is from a pawnbroker. "But that was a nerve of a different kind,'' replied the plaintiff, amidst laughter. Mr. Leicester: Perhaps it'was for a nerve of a still different kind. (Renewed laughter.)
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1934, Page 10
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115THE BORROWING "NERVE" Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1934, Page 10
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