Mrs. Weldon has gained her suit against Dr. Semple for
giving a certificate for her incarceration in a lunatic asylum without the proper precautions prescribed in the law, and the jury have given her £1,000 damages. Further, the Master of the Rolls decided on Thursday that Mrs. Weldon's action against Dr. Forbes Winslow, though her husband was not joined with her in it, was duly brought, and that the damages she may receive will be her own, and not her husband's. And in this judgment the Lords Justices concurred. We are not admirers of Mrs. Weldon's procedure as a whole; but we confess to being heartily thankful for her success in showing up the worthless- ness of the guarantees which have been supposed to prevent the unjust incarceration of sane people as if they were lunatics. Mrs. Weldon's victory will secure, we hope, a very speedy change in the law, and put an end to private certificates of lunacy altogether.
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