--- title: Religion: $750 for Reality description: In Mineola, L. I. last year Mrs. Lucy Steele Kirk, Christian Scientist, sued George Cisler for $10,000 for damages from an automobile accident. A jury found for the defendant because Supreme Court... canonical: https://time.com/archive/6820723/religion-750-for-reality/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 1935-06-10T04:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-04T04:08:07.024Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Religion: $750 for Reality og:description: In Mineola, L. I. last year Mrs. Lucy Steele Kirk, Christian Scientist, sued George Cisler for $10,000 for damages from an automobile accident. A jury found for the defendant because Supreme Court... og:url: https://time.com/archive/6820723/religion-750-for-reality/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Religion: $750 for Reality twitter:description: In Mineola, L. I. last year Mrs. Lucy Steele Kirk, Christian Scientist, sued George Cisler for $10,000 for damages from an automobile accident. A jury found for the defendant because Supreme Court... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Religion: $750 for Reality by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 10, 1935 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 10, 1935 4:00 AM CUT In Mineola, L. I. last year Mrs. Lucy Steele Kirk, Christian Scientist, sued George Cisler for $10,000 for damages from an automobile accident. A jury found for the defendant because Supreme Court Justice Paul Bonynge charged it solemnly to ponder whether, to a follower of Mary Baker Eddy, injuries and pains could be real (TIME, June 25). This spring a higher court ordered a new trial, holding that Justice Bonynge had erred in letting Christian Science “creep into the trial in a manner inviting, to the plaintiff’s prejudice, personal issues between her and the jury.” Last week in Mineola a new jury awarded Mrs. Kirk $750 in real money for the real injuries she suffered from George Cisler’s real automobile. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6820723/religion-750-for-reality/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6820723/religion-750-for-reality/"},"headline":"Religion: $750 for Reality","datePublished":"1935-06-10T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-04T04:08:07.024Z","description":"In Mineola, L. I. last year Mrs. Lucy Steele Kirk, Christian Scientist, sued George Cisler for $10,000 for damages from an automobile accident. A jury found for the defendant because Supreme Court...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6820723/religion-750-for-reality/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6820723/religion-750-for-reality/","name":"Religion: $750 for Reality"}}]}] ```