DAMAGES AWARDED TO PATIENT
CLAIM AGAINST DOCfOE LEAVE GRANTED TO ASW9 FOR NEW TRIAL (PRESS ASSOCIATION PALMERSTON NORTH, June A After a retirement of four houxfjtne jury in the Supreme Court as®#* damages (£4OO general and £l7* ?P«r cial) to Mrs Olive Rita Paterson apijq Dr. Kenrick Dean, the allegations beng improper treatment of an injured Mr Justice Quilliam granted counsel for the defence leave to apply for » new trial on the grounds that the verdict was against the weight of e* l " dence. _ In his address to the jury his Honour suggested that there was a P**: ponderance of evidence in favour « the view that the disability Mrs Paterson was now suffering was the resuß of the injury, and not the treatmentDr. Dean had done a very wise thingHe saw the case was not responding, so called in a surgeon. Some doctors fe“ diffident about calling in another. His Honour also directed attention to the medical evidence that the injury was a rare one, so one might expect that it would not be correcw diagnosed the first time. There was also a preponderance of medical evidence that Mrs Paterson would completely recover. __
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22418, 3 June 1938, Page 4
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