THE PROPRIETORSHIP OF A LADY'S LEG.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 117, 27 February 1895, Page 4

THE PROPRIETORSHIP OF A LADY'S LEG.

A strange case has lately como on before the Brussels High Court. It appears that in March last a young and charming married lady met with an. accident of such a nature that it was necessary to amputate Iter right leg. The operation was most successfully performed, and the operator was so pleased with the waj' he took that log off that he took it off altogether, and exhibited it, in a jar of spirits of wine, prominently in his consulting room. As the contents of the jar wore authenticated by a descriptive label, which bore amongst other details, the patient's name and address, the patient's husband did not fail to hear of this show. I'ut the show failed to meet with his approval, and ho instructed his solicitor to demand its immediate discontinuance, and the return forthwith of that which, being bono of his boao andilesh of his flesh, wa3 undoubtedly his (plaintiff's property. To this the surgeon demurred. Ho admitted that plaintiff had proprietary rights in the leg, while it formed part of his wife, but he argued that the leg, as it was now, was the result of his (defendant's) skill and the work of his own hands, and that he was clearly entitled to keep it. The Court seemed rather staggered with this argument and reserved its I decision.