(Beforo His Honour Mr Justice Donniston.) The Court resumed at 10 a.m. Thomas Graco v. dcuth Guutorbury Hospi tal Board, ci:-.im £500 damages for personal Mr Kippenberger, with ilr Raymond for plaintiff, llx <J. l'orry for defendants. Mr Kipponberger read the. statement of claim, which was in effect that on tho 19th February last the plaintiff was suffering from bronchitis and was admitted to tbo Tiinaru Hospital for nursing and treatment ; that tbo plaintiff was improperly and unskilfully treated and nursed in the hospital, with the result that he was scalded so aB to be seriously injured for lifo The facts he would prove were that on the date named the plaintiff, an infant of seven months, naa takon to the hospital by the father and mother. They showed the ohild to Vt Lawson, who said it was suffering from bronchitis. There was some conversation botween them, and eventually Dr Lawson took the child from th^' father and took it to a by ward and handed it to a nurse. Before doing so he spoke to a convalescent patient and asked her if she would «ee to tho child, and nheßgreed to do bo, but she nover saw the child again from that timo (when she saw the father and mother go into tho by-ward) until after the accident had happened, so that the accident happsnod wholly during tho time that tha child was in tho custody of the nurse and under Dr Lawson's supervision. It would be shown that the child was very seriously injured and marked for lifo, and the inj ury occurred through negligence. That it waa so was emphasized by the fact that con flicting and contradictory etatemontshad been made by the nurso and tho doctor. Ho could not eay they were wilfully false in both cases, but they must have been in the case of the nurse, as she told the doctor the child was burned be fore it was taken to tb,e hospital. Medi cal testimony would sho?r that the in jury to the Bcaln extended right acros3 the Bead, the hair would never grow there and the ohild muat have suffered a great deal of pain. His Honour aaked if the mental pain of an infant of Beven months was to be taken into account, and a little diecuesion" took place on this point. B. 