HARNETT CASE.
£•'>!)!! DAMAGES. Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.) I LONDON'. April 19. Harnett, whose appeal was cabled on April 13th, was awarded five hundred sterling as damages for wrongful detention in an asylum. The jury found that Harnett was not insane. They also found that Doctor Fisher did not act- with reasonable tare in declaring him insane. The Judge, summing up, declared the ease was one of considerable importance. It was important and unfortun. ate to Harnett, and also to doctors and the general public, because the people liked to feel secure in the knowledge that everyone was carefully examined when there was question of insautiy. The Judge intimated that lie would hear legal arguments on the jury’s findings to-morrow. Harnett, in 1924. was awarded twen-ty-five thousand pounds damages against Doctor C. H. Bond, the Lunacy Commissioner, and Doctor G. H. Adam, of West .Mailing, for wrongful detention in ail asylum, but the House of Lords (plashed the High Court’s judgment in March, 1923.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1926, Page 4
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164HARNETT CASE. Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1926, Page 4
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