LEPROSY AWARD UPSET.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7749, 15 July 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

LEPROSY AWARD UPSET.

WHY JURORS READ THE BIBLE DURING THE SUMMING-UP. Disagreeing with the verdict of the special jury in the leprosy case. Mr. Justice Darling, says a Loudon paper, found for the defendants, thus setting aside the award of £250 damages to Mr. E. P. Humphreys, the lodgin-house keeper The jury had found that the late Mr. H. C. Miller was a leper, that :he disease was contagious, and Hit his daughter and I)r. Harbord had knowingly -deceived the plaintiff with regard to tho malady. Mr. McCall, K.C.. lor the defence, lemarked that during the Judge’s summing-up, four of the jurymen who were sworn on the Old Testament (Jewish Jurors are always sworn on the Old Testament) were passing that book to each other. It was obvious that what they were passing was not the law as his lordship laid it down, but the law con rained in the 13th Chanter of Levi th us, dealing with the precautions to he taken in the ease of what the Jews then knew as leprosy. Mr. Justice Darling: I see, it Is practically a course of treatment. Hit lordship said it was a fas einating argument that anyone taking lodgings should bear in miDd the* commandment. "Do unto others as you would they should do unto you, ’ and ' I think, strictly speaking, Ji gentleman would do it.” But. that was a long way from saying that it was the law of England that they must do s«\ Judgment was entered accordingly for the defendants with costs, u stay being granted