PURELY ACCIDENTAL
PLAINTIFF’S CLAIM FAILS.
Dunedin, November 23.
In the Supreme Court, Joan Catherine O'Connell sued Dr. William Arthur Anderson and Elizabeth Thomson for £750 damages for alleged negligence in burning the nlani tiff’s foot with a hot-water bottle While she was under an anaesthetic in a private hospital at Queenstown. The action was against the doctor, who was the surgeon conducting the operation, and against the owner of the maternity hospital at Which it was performed. Mr Justice Sim said it was clear that the hot-water bag when brought in must have been dangerously hot, but it was not brought in for immediate, use. It was brought in case it should be required and was nlaced in what appeared to be a place of safety in the bed. some distance from the patient, and under a sheet. He could not say that the urse ought to have anticipated, when she put the bag there, that the patient would move down the bed and her feet come in contact with the bottle. Judgment was given for the defendants.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 23 November 1927, Page 5
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178PURELY ACCIDENTAL Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 23 November 1927, Page 5
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