VALUE OF ILLUSION.
FRENCHMAN’S UNIQUE CLAIM. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, December 28. The courts will shortly have to estimate the legal value of an illusion, as a result of an action by a father against a Professor for informing his eight-year-old son that Father Christmas was an invention, and that the parents placed the presents in the stocking. The father is claiming £BO moral damages, as he desired his son to continue the illusion.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 18763, 30 December 1930, Page 12
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76VALUE OF ILLUSION. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 18763, 30 December 1930, Page 12
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