ALLEGED SLANDER.
DOCTORS IN COURT.
Per Press Association
DUNEDIN, Aug. 16. A case of alleged slander, in which doctors are the parties, is proceeding in the Supreme Court before Sir William Sim and a jury. Dr. James Gariield Stewart, of Milton, claims £SOO from Dr. A. C. Biggs, superintendent of the South Otago Hospital, for alleged slander contained in remarks made to the board and a deputation—by stating that a woman living in the neghhourhood of Milton was expecting a confinement and had developed mumps, and that Dr Stewart tried to get her into private maternity homes at Ralclutha, Milton and Dunedin, though suffering from a highly infectious disease.
The statement for plaintiff set out that these allegations had been published to injure plaintiff in His profession and reputation. The defence is that the words were spoken by defendant, in the discharge of his duty as superintendent, to the Hospital Board, and at the board’s request, without malice and in reply to a request for information as to why the board had declined to reinstate plaintiff as medical surgeon in the Milton Hospital.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 222, 17 August 1927, Page 2
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183ALLEGED SLANDER. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 222, 17 August 1927, Page 2
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