Read the full judgment text of HCA 005018/1981 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 May 1982.
1. In June 1979 the Plaintiff, then aged 9 1/2 years was attacked and injured by the Defendant's dog in the 11th floor corridor of a residential housing block in the Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate. As a result of the attack she fell and suffered a supra-condylar fracture of the right humerus. She was admitted to hospital, the fracture exposed at operation and secured by a Kirschener wire. She remained in hospital for nearly four months.