1N 'THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF JAMAICA

IN COMMON LAW

SUIT NO. C.L. 2001lJ104

BETWEEN ENID JOHNSON CLAIMANTS

(ADMINSTRATRIX IN THE

ESTATE YORKSLADDA

JOIINSON, deceased

<I AND SOUTH-EAST REGIONAL I-1EALTI-I lS' DEFENDANT

AUTHORITY

AND THEATTORNEYGENERALOF 2ND DEFENDANT

JAMAICA

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Mr. Norman Samuels for the Claimant

Mr. John Spencer instructed by the Director of State Proceedings

For the 1" aand 2nd Defendants

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Application for 111 terim payment

Heard on 30"' October 2006 and 7"' November, 2006

MORRISON, J (Ag.)

'I'lierc is a conlesl of rack and issues belweeli the parlies hereto in so far as il relates to

ilic qucsliou ofliabiliiy Tor llie medical delerioralior~o flhc Clai~na~iMl,r . Yo~.ksladda

Johnson, since deceased.

In brief, it is the conlention of the Claimant that consequent upon his being injured in a

motor vehicle accident on 3 1 July, 1996, he was admitted to the Kingston Public

Hospital. There, he was diagnosed as suffering from the following injuries:

a) fracture of the left distal femur