| Show A TALL FEE one hundred and fifty dollar for n three minute job in the bloomsbury county court not long ago judge bacon tried the case of browne vs earl of annesley which was a claim for eighteen guineas balance of an account by dr lennox browne for an operation performed by him on lord Gl crawley the son it appears that lord Gle rawley suffered from stammering lie was under the treatment of a mra baker who recommended that dr browne should be consulted lord annesley took lord Gle rawley to the plaintiff who put him under chloroform for that two guineas was asked and for the operation which followed a medium fee of thirty guineas was charged plaintiff said he waa a recognized authority on matters of this kind and had received as much as fifty guineas for similar operations in cross ex dr lennox browne said that ho never promised that lord gle rawley would be cured of stammering by the operation dr collier and other surgeons gave evidence as to the rea of the charges the defense was that it ws understood that the operation would cure lord Gle rawley of sta miring it had not dono so lord annesley paid the two guineas for an assistant and ten guineas for the plaintiff which brought the claim down to eighteen guinean guine aa sir andrew clarac said he would charge ten to fifteen guineas for such an operation his honor said the evidence was entirely against the defendant plaintiff biad said the operation took him three minutes but thirty guineas was hh charge lie must have u verdict for eighteen guineas with costs N Y journal |
