A CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION.
In a case that was brought before a. County Court judge some forty years ago a workman claimed to have lost the sight of his left eye in an explosion. There was no doubt about the explosion, and there was no doubt that the workman's eye had been injured ; but the physicians said that he could see with it, while he stoutly declared tfiat the sight was utterly destroyed. The judge heard all the evidence pro and con. Then, sending the workman out of court, he said :
"Get a blackboard and write a sentence on it with green chalk. also get a Pair of spectacles with ordinary clear glass for the left eye and with red glass for the right." This, in the course of an hour or so, was done. Then the workman was s brought back, and he was ordered to put the glasses on, which he did.
"Turn the blackboard round and see if you can read what is written on it," the judge said. The man read the sentence' without hesitation, whereupon the judge said to him sternly : "Your case is dismissed. You are an imposter. You must have read the sentence with your left eye, for the red glass over the right one turned the gr«ei* writing, black and made it quite invisible on the blackboard.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 497, 4 September 1912, Page 7
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225A CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 497, 4 September 1912, Page 7
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