An account of the trial between Jonathan Stancliffe, plaintiff, and Thomas Chorley and George Bulmer, defendants, for neglect and inattention as to the dislocation of an arm : tried on Saturday, the 31st July, 1830, at York, before Sir N.C. Tindal, knight, and a special jury.

Date:
1830
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Credit: An account of the trial between Jonathan Stancliffe, plaintiff, and Thomas Chorley and George Bulmer, defendants, for neglect and inattention as to the dislocation of an arm : tried on Saturday, the 31st July, 1830, at York, before Sir N.C. Tindal, knight, and a special jury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    in his endeavours to maintain his family. He dont ask for vindictive damages; the question is how is he to be compensated for the injury he has sustained ? I apprehend I shall have an op- portunity of addressing a few rnore observations to you, if I have, I trust, I shall not make any improper use of a reply; if I have not—the case is in your hands, and I tmst that you will award such damages to the Plaintiff as the circumstances of his case require. George Southern, examined hy Mr. Alder son- said, I am a block-maker, and live in Vollans'- Row, Hunslet-Lane, in Leeds, next door to the Plaintiff, who, I believe, is an agent; he has a wife and four children, the eldest is about twelve years old. I remember Mr. Stancliffe coming- home about seven o'clock in the evening, having had a fit; it was on the 16th March. I was called up by Mr. Stancliffe's wife that night, about half- past ten o'clock, and I went to see him; he com- plained of a pain in his right shoulder, and request- ed me to go and fetch Mr Chorley; I went to Mr. Chorley's house, but did not find him at home. I saw a man of the name of Wade, who is one of Mr. Chorley's assistants. I told Mr. Wade that Mr. Chorley was to come down to Mr. Stancliffe's, that he had had a fit at the counting-house, and had fallen, and that he had great pain in his right shoulder. Mr. Wade said, that Mr. Chorley was not in, but that he would go him- self, and he went with me to Stancliffe's house; when we got there, Mr. Wade took hold of Mr.