People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — FROM THE COURTS. [ARTICLE]

FROM THE COURTS.

Daniel B. Matteson, of Boston, Mass., tried to stop a dog fight, and ; was bitten by a dog belonging to Homer C. Strong. He sued Strong, and the jury awarded him $375. The supreme court sustained the verdict. I A dentist at Birmingham, England, has just been mulcted in $250 damages for the extraction of the whole of the teeth of a married woman. She only asked him to extract one tooth. Previous to the operation she testified she could eat a crust or pick a bone with anyone.