diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestElementDistanceIndex.java b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestElementDistanceIndex.java
index d8aed3d..07a2174 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestElementDistanceIndex.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestElementDistanceIndex.java
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 package de.ids_mannheim.korap.index;
 
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
@@ -12,11 +16,15 @@
 import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
 
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapIndex;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapMatch;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapQuery;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapResult;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.DistanceConstraint;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanDistanceQuery;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanElementQuery;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.SpanNextQuery;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.wrap.SpanQueryWrapperInterface;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.util.QueryException;
 
 @RunWith(JUnit4.class)
 public class TestElementDistanceIndex {
@@ -182,6 +190,44 @@
         assertEquals(3, kr.match(1).startPos);
         assertEquals(5, kr.match(1).endPos);
         
-    }	
+    }
+	
+	/** Test query from json */
+	@Test
+	public void testCase5() throws IOException{
+		//System.out.println("testCase4");
+		ki = new KorapIndex();
+		ki.addDocFile(getClass().getResource("/wiki/00001.json.gz").getFile(),true);       
+        ki.commit();
+        
+        InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/queries/cosmas1.json");        
+        BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+        String json;
+        while((json = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null){
+            sb.append(json);
+        }                
+        json = sb.toString();
+        
+        SpanQueryWrapperInterface sqwi;
+        try {    	    
+    	    sqwi = new KorapQuery("tokens").fromJSON(json);
+    	}
+    	catch (QueryException e) {
+    	    fail(e.getMessage());
+    	    sqwi = new KorapQuery("tokens").seg("???");
+    	};        
+    	
+        
+        SpanQuery sq;
+        sq = sqwi.toQuery();
+        kr = ki.search(sq, (short) 10);
+    	
+        for (KorapMatch km : kr.getMatches()){		
+        	System.out.println(km.getStartPos() +","+km.getEndPos()+" "
+        			+km.getSnippetBrackets());
+        }
+    }
+	
 		
 }
diff --git a/src/test/resources/queries/cosmas1.json b/src/test/resources/queries/cosmas1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2215e86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/queries/cosmas1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{
+  "@context" : "http://ids-mannheim.de/ns/KorAP/json-ld/v0.1/context.jsonld",
+  "query" : {
+    "@type" : "korap:group",
+    "operation" : "operation:sequence",
+    "inOrder" : false,
+    "distances" : [ {
+      "@type" : "korap:distance",
+      "key" : "s",
+      "min" : 0,
+      "max" : 0
+    } ],
+    "operands" : [ {
+      "@type" : "korap:token",
+      "wrap" : {
+        "@type" : "korap:term",
+        "key" : "Buchstabe",
+        "layer" : "orth",
+        "match" : "match:eq"
+      }
+    }, {
+      "@type" : "korap:token",
+      "wrap" : {
+        "@type" : "korap:term",
+        "key" : "deutschen",
+        "layer" : "orth",
+        "match" : "match:eq"
+      }
+    } ]
+  }
+}