Medico-Legal Trial.—Unlawful Detention in a Lunatic Asylum
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Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Petersdorff, and Mr. Gordon Allen, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Ballantinc, and Mr. Honyman for the defendants. , Mr. Gordon Allan opened the pleadings. The first count was for assaulting and imprisoning the plaintiff in a house called Moorcroft-house, in the parish of Hillingdon, and detaining him there among lunatics and persons of unsound mind for a period of ten months. The second count alleged that the defendants were the keepers of a house licensed for the reception of lunatics, and received the plaintiff upon an order signed by one Mary Ann Ruck, as a private patient and with two medical certificates ; that while the defendants had such charge of this plaintiff lie recovered, which the defendants well knew, and it was thereupon their duty to transmit notice of such recovery to the said Mary Ann Ruck, but that they neglected to do so, and they also wilfully neglected to transmit notice of his recovery to the Commissioners of Lunacy, but under colour and pretence of the said order and certificates, kept the plaintiff in custody for ten months, &c. To these two counts the defendants pleaded several pleas, denying all the material allegations. Mr. Edwin James, in opening the case to the jury, said this was an action of
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