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' • 11 1 • LEGAL AND MEDICAL *'• . (Special to the Gerald.) AUCKLAND, this (lay. ‘‘ls there any necessity to labor •thU matter?” asked Mr Justice Herdman of counsel during the hearing of a claim by an elderly man for -damages for an injury alleged to have Ibeen. caused ! by a motor accident. “The point is. whether the plaintiff the trouble as a result of this accident ’ ’ ‘*l really just -want to show how doctors differ/’ said Mr. J. F. W. " Dickson, who resumed his crossexamination of a medical witness. “I think that is fairly obvious,” replied the judge. A moment later His Honor ob- • served: I suppose you have heard that wheu doctors make mistakes there is six Scot under the ground; but when lawyers make mistakes there is six feet above the ground — they hang. Of course, it is an old story. Mr. Dickson: But the mistakes of (die 'bar are far less frequent than r those of the medical fraternity. His Honor had nothing further to
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17185, 15 February 1930, Page 5
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