BY ORDER
GIRL BLINKS AT JUDGE SOUTHEND, November 3. Judge Crawford, in the county court here, to-day, told a young woman to stand beside him and blink at him. Miss Florence Sprules, 20, of Hilda-ville-drive, Westcliff, claimed £lOO damages for injuries she received in collision with a motor-cycle driven by Mr. George H. Thompson, Coleman’s-, avenue, Southend. Dr. Clapham said that when plaintiff blinked the left side of her cheek rose, and this condition might be permanent. The judge then called the girl to the Bench and asked her to blink at him. She did so several times, and his honor awarded damages of £7O, remarking: “I suppose this young girl hopes to get a husband, although matrimony does not seem to be so popular as when I was young. There is no doubt that disfigurement of this kind to a girl of her age is a very different thing from disfigurement to a woman of 50. There is no doubt this twitching, which is unsightly and unpleasant, is a result of the accident.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1933, Page 3
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