SUPREME COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 112, 8 April 1927, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association

WELLINGTON. April 7. An application was made in the Supreme Court to-day before His Honour, .Mr Justice Reed, by the ‘New Zealand Medical Council to hnve Dr. George Oscar Jacobsen, of Wellington, struck off tho Register of Medical Practitioners, it being alleged .that on June 30, 1926, he gave the name and address of Mrs Nevill, 140 Queen’s Drive, Lyali Bay, to a woman in a certain condition ns a person who might bo able to procuro a oertain result.

In dismissing the application aftcT evidence had been hoard, the woman’s allegations being denied by. the doctor, the judge said the question wav one purely of fact, the doctor’s word against the woman’s, The woman’s word was uncorroborated. He did not think the court would be justified ir agreeing to the application, unless the evidence was clear and- cogent, and the onus was upon the Medical Counci l to prove it with all that particularity and certainty which must be referred in a criminal charge. The case really resolved itself into a girl’s word agninst that of a doctor. He could find no corroboration. The suspicious circumstances had . been answered by reasonable explanations and outside these explanations there was absolutely no corroboration;