JUDGMENT RESERVED.
CLAIM AGAINST DOCTOR. Per Press Association.) \ DUNEIDIN, Sept 1. The question of the vicarious liability of a surgeon for the negligence of a member of his operating theatre staff was further discussed before Mr Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court to-day, when the case in which Isabel Daisy Ingram is claimng £7OO from Henry Walden Fitzgerald, was concluded. The, claim arose out of the painting of the plaintiff after an operation with iodised phenol instead of tincture of iodine. The mistake was made by one of the attendant sisters in the operating theatre. The remaining evidence for the defence was heard) in the morning, and the afternoon was devoted to legal argument. His Honor intimated that' lie would take time to consider his judgment.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 275, 2 September 1936, Page 5
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