(udoment for plainti Shanghai, Jan, 23.
Because it would have cost him $15 to have an X-ray photograph taken to prove that a false tooth was hurting him, a defendant in H, M. Sup-rome Court yesterday agreed to pay dentist's claim which he had con {ested a week previously. He Mr. Solomon Delbourgo and he was sued by Dr. Robert Less, a German~ Jewish' denial surgeon, for payment {or treatment performed, At the first hearing of the case Judge P, Grant Jones, before whom the defendant appeared yesterday, adjourned the action for one week order that Delbourgo might have X-ray picture taken of a pivot tooth which was screwed in place
pain, and which, he soi, was causing him went for an X-ray," said defendant yesterday, "and they wanted $15 and go T didn't think it was worth It" "He added that he had visited Japanese dentist in Wayside. "What was his name? asked His Lordship. Aller attempting to describe where the dentist lived, defendant was "The gain asked for the, name. "well it {s'a Japanese name," he replied.
Atier His Lordship had informed him that Japanese names were as intelligible as any others, Delbourgo said the nearest he could get to It was that he had asked a Japanese dontist in Wayside to take the X-ray picture. "He then described the tooth which was hurting him as a "pivot" tooth and this was queried by His Lordship, who was Informed that the defendant meant pivot. "We had the word in the press a short time go," he remarked. "Certain persons were referred to as pivot boys."
Delbourgo then explained that he had written fo Dr. Less agreeing to, pay $07. "That was the judgment Should have given whether you had agreed oF nol." stated the Judge. "it Is hard," replied Delbourgo. don't think so;" said Mis Lordship. "It ig hard," the defendant again stated.
His Lordship—tt 1 say it is not hard, it is not for you to say it is, unless you wish to be committed for contempt of Court.
'Witness—No my' Lord.
Judgment was entered for plaintiff in the sum of $87 with $19 costs,
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