CLAIM FOR DAMAGES.
By Telegraph—Press Association. ' NAPIER, July 2. In the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr Justice Chapman and a special jury of twelve, the hearing was concluded of the case in which William Henry Lean, of Hastings, commission agent, sued Dr Thomas McKibbin, of that town, for i 31,000 damages for alleged negligence in the treatment of plaintiff's wife, who had died from puerperal septicaemia after confinement. The witnesses included: a number of medical men. Defendant said he had had 93 con---finement cases in the year 1908, and only one death, which was the subject of the present action. Three other doctors called for the defence said that defendant's treatment of the case was correct. The jury, after fifteen tirement, returned a verdict for defendant. His Honor entered up judgment for defendant accordingly,* with costs. r
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9533, 3 July 1909, Page 5
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137CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9533, 3 July 1909, Page 5
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