| Show the story of a bone about twenty years ago there was a malpractice case tried in this court against a bangor physician he performed a surgical operation on a patient and removed a piece of diseased lone an this was the subject of the suit you know in such cases if the patient recover as quickly as he thinks he ought to he becomes an impatient and goes for the doctor with a lawsuit there was a big fight in that case with lots of witnesses and the bone came in with the rest of the evidence it smelled worse than a slaughterhouse slaughter house in midsummer when it came into court and it gathered additional dit ional smell constantly afterward the jury disagreed or there was a new trial granted so that the case hung fire from april to october and the clerk was directed to preserve the all important bone by locking it in the office safe both parties tried to get it but the court would not surrender it it generated such odors while in custody that it nearly drove us out of the office altogether and if you want to realize all about the scent of the roses that still remains here after all these years although we have done everything to get rid of it just put your head into that safe lewiston journal |
