Thursday, October 15th, 1914, p3.
HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.
KINGS BENCH DIVISION.
A DOCTOR’S LIBEL ACTION: CHARGES OF FLOGGING.
KEATS v. BRACEY-WRIGHT AND ANOTHER.
(Before MR. JUSTICE BRAY and a Special Jury.)
The hearing of this case was resumed to-day. The action was brought by Dr. W. J. C. Keats, medical superintendent of the Camberwell Infirmary, against Mrs. C. A. R. Bracey-Wright and her son, Mr. W. H. C. Bracey-Wright, to recover damages for alleged libels contained in an election address issued by the defendants in support of their candidature for election to the Camberwell Board of Guardians and in a leaflet circulated by them.
The alleged libels complained of suggested that the plaintiff had been concerned in the flogging of child patients in the infirmary, and that a practice of flogging convalescent children prevailed at the infirmary.