VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT
CHARGE OF NEGLIGENCE AGAINST A DOCTOR. PItESS ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, July 2. In the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr Justice Uhapman and a special jury of,twelve, the hearing was concluded of the case in which WUliam Henry Lean, of Hastings, commission agent, sued Dr Thomas McKibbin, of that town, for .£IOOO 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 confinement cases in the year 1908, and there had been 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 minutes' retirement, returned a verdict for the defendant. .
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6861, 3 July 1909, Page 10
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