WOMAN’S CLAIM AGAINST HOSPITAL BOARD FAILS
NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night (PA). —Stella Beatrice Hodgkiss lost her case against the Taranaki Hospital Board in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth today. Alleging negligence by the operating surgeon, Gordon Francis Rich, she had sued the board for £lO,OOO general and £571 special damages. A mistake in cutting the brachial plexus nerve instead of the subclavian artery had, she said, left, her with paralyses, and a deformed and permanently useless lower left arm and hand. Furthermore, she claimed that her diaphragm was paralysed through the injury to the phrenic nerve. When the special jury that has been trying the case during the four-day bearing returned to the Court this evening, the foreman announced a unanimous finding for the board. Judgment was entered by Mr. Justice Cooke on the application of Mr. R. H. Quilliam, counsel for the board. No application for costs was made by the board.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 5 September 1950, Page 6
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