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Show DEFINITION Ol- A LUXURIOUS'DINNER. What San Francisco Man Considers an Ideal Feed Sympathetic Jur? Awarded Him Damages, Sumo years ago a San Francisco man was invited to a big dinner. He was out of town at the rime, so the invitation was sent by wire, but the telegraph company tailed to deliver the message in anything like reasonable reasona-ble time. He missed the feed and was so cut up over the matter that he sued the company for damages. In his complaint lie stated that tnrough the noun ceipt of that lelcgram be missed the exceeding pleasure of consuming one "luxurious dinner." to bis great ; disappointment and deprivation. On j that phrase "luxurious dinner" the learned counsel for the telegraph com- j pany sought to score, lint alas! utterly j ruined the company's case thereby. I for in the west the sense of humor is aptly termed the sixth sense. "What." queried the learned counsel, coun-sel, with due solemnity, "is your idea of a luxurious dinner?" This was a most important question ono requiring calm consideration and the complainant solemnly reflect- j ed for some moments before replying At length he said slowly: "A luxurious dinner, In my estimation, estima-tion, is one whore you sit, say, two feet from the table and eat until you touch." The discriminating Jury promptly gave complainant a verdict for $400-. whic h the company paid. The winnei joyously gave a "luxurious dinner" to a crowd o his friends, including among them the lawyer who aske1 him the question whose answer infiu enced the jury to return such an unex peeled verdict. Miniature telegrapk poles went round the festive boaro. the connecting wires were of smllai and sparkling wine was drunk fron-tumblers fron-tumblers made in the form of the glass insulators that one sees on tele graph poles. The menus were writte on telegraph blanks, as. too. were the invitations. Altogether w was an enjoyable en-joyable and never-to-be-forgotten occasion occa-sion to all hut the company's lawyer who indignently denied himself th pleasure of participating. |