K.C.'S NOBLE SACRIFICE

Evening Star, Issue 19788, 11 February 1928, Page 4

K.C.'S NOBLE SACRIFICE

21,000 SERVICES FOR NOTHING. Judgment was entered for the defendants in the action for damages brought by Mrs Mary Christion Venn, of Leander road, Thornton Heath, Surrey, against Dr J. M. Todesco, Medical superintendent at the Croydon Borough Isolation Hospital, and Dr F. J. Elder, formerly his assistant of that institution, in respect of the death of her husband in June, 1922. Mrs Venn’s ease was that her husband’s death was due to the negligence of the doctors in not diagnosing an abscess sooner than they had done. The doctors denied that they had been guilty of negligence. The case has been heard twice before, and Mrs Venn sued as a poor person, and at each trial was represented by Sir Henry Haddocks, K.C., and Mr Goodman, The previous trials had occupied the courts for eight days and six days respectively, and the third trial went into tho sixth day, Mr Justice Horridge had previously described the, effoits of Sir Henry Haddocks on Mrs Venn’s behalf as “a noble sacrifice.” • . A barrister told a London ‘Daily Mail ’ reporter that, though it was difficult to estimate accurately the fees of a leading counsel, there could be no doubt that Sir Henry Maddocks had •aerificed about £I,OOO in .the case.