Value of Ears and Eyes
Few people have the samp view on the monetary value of an car, and not many, 1 think, would sacrifice one for £BOO, as a Chicago woman is reported to be doing, writes a correspondent in an English paper. Judge Cluer a short time ago declared that a finger was worth more than £5O, while the value, of a nose was assessed at £450 in an action at Toronto. The human eye has been rated as the most valuable part of the body, no less than £50,000 being awarded an American doctor who lost the sight of one of his eyes in •an accident. A smile equals £l2O in the eyes of the law. At least this was a sum secured by a Paris mannecpiin who in a street accident lost her ability to look pleasant and claimed £2500.
An American dancer was given £5OOO for the loss of a leg, but many famous dancers have insured their limbs for much higher amounts than that. Nothing varies more than the values put on the human frame as a whole. A wife’s worth has been put at 2s 6d by one judge and £lO,OOO by another. The value of a husband to his wife was in one case put at such a meagre amount as threepence.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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220Value of Ears and Eyes Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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