Will bad table manners vitiate legal grounds of action? A collision
recently occurred while an Italian commercial traveller was eating a
Bologna sausage in a railway train. The shock of the collision drove the
knife so violently against his mouth as to widen it. He brought suit for
damages. The defence was that the injuries were caused by the knife;
that the knife should never be carried to the mouth, and that the
plaintiff, having injured himself by reason of his bad habit of eating,
must take the consequences and pay his own doctor’s bill. The case is
not yet finally decided.
—_Echo_, Oct. 1st., 1880.