DOCTOR'S REVENGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15122, 12 October 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

DOCTOR'S REVENGE.

lODOFORM IN PANS AND POTS.

A remarkable lawsuit between a medical man and a restaurant keeper is proceeding in tho judicial courts of Pera. The litigants occupy tho same house, the doctor living in the upper storey and his adversary in the apartments immediately below. For some months the physician noticed that disagreeable odours we're filling his reception rooms. These offensive smells— mixture of burnt- oil, charcoal fumes, etc. — were traced to the kitchen of the restaurant. As this greatly inconvenienced the patients of the medical man, he began by degrees to loso his clientele. Ho made remonstration to tho proprietor, who in turn remonstrated with tho keeper of the restaurant. But all was in vain. The latter contended that he could not keep a restaurant, without a kitchen, and that a kitchen without frying pans was an impossibility. Tho matter went to court, but as tho law in Turkey is surrounded by delaji, tho physician decided to procure satisfaction himself, and to oust, if possible, the objectionable neighbour from the house. Accordingly ho bored a small hole in (ho floor of his apartment just above the kitchen of the restaurant, and when the cooking was proceeding poured a drop or two of°iodoform into the pans and pots. Needless to add, the customers of the restaurant left him to seek a place that provided more palatable food. Tho keeper of the eating-house entered a lawsuit in turn and swore terrible revenue.