Kicking-power

NZ Truth, Issue 1144, 3 November 1927, Page 5

Kicking-power

fHE expression — a "kick like a mule"— is often used to denote the power delivered behind a given blow, but it was left to counsel m the Wellington Supreme Court last week to estimate the kicking power of a man's boot insofar as damage to another man was concerned. Judge, counsel and witness were all concerned as to the power 't would take — when one man kicked another — to break a leg, the medical witness stating that it would take more than an ordinary kick to do such damage. Counsel; "Mark Nicholls at his best form might do it if the leg was 'placed' for him?" (Laughter.) The Judge: "If you kicked a man hard enough you would be bound to break his leg; isn't that so, doctor?" Doctor: "I think so." And that settled the argument.