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May 28, 1963 Mr. Eric Q. Bohlln President Eberhard Faber Jnc. Crestwood Will:es-Barre Pennsylvania Dear Mr. Bohlin: Please accept ray thanks for your very nice present. Your personal expression of tn&nks ibr my effort is a bit unusual and all the sore appreciated. Incidentally, my"effort" was really on behalf of a just disposition of this case, which was based upon a profound misunderstanding of the situation. I find that such situations, which unfortunately are not rare, are an affront to ray sense of fairness, and I find myself ^ involved in them from time' to time. My personal feelings, which I have never been hardened by experience to disregard, are that both you and I were defeated in this instance by the settlement, respite its rationale. I realise fully that there was the imponderable, in this instance, of a jury that could not fail to sympathise with the plaintiff; there may have been other unpredictable factors, However, i regard the settlement of a worthless case by the sura agreed upon in this instance, as a cynical acceptance of a sad state of affairs in the courts. So long as this sort of thing obtains, it is impossible' for a citizen to resort to a "court of justice" in defense of a civil suit unless he is very well to do. The sums which are now being awarded (or settled) are, in my view, outrageous, regardless of the strategems by which such payments can be made without ruinous effects. This leaves the "little people" without access to justice. Sincerely yours, RAK:ss Robert A. iVehoe, M. D. N5276 ,-r 0000163