Editorial August 12, 1905 Issue

A Favorable Decision

Archibald McLellan

THE following quotation from the New York World of August 8, marks the closing of a case which occasioned much sensational comment in the latter part of 1902, and which was quite extensively reported in the newspapers at that time. The World says,—

"After three years of fighting in the courts, County Judge William H. Platt, at White Plains, handed down yesterday a decision sustaining the demurrers against the indictments found against John Quinby, his wife, Georgianna Quinby, of White Plains, and John C. Lathrop of Manhattan, Christian Scientists, for allowing the Quinbys' young daughter, Esther, to die from diphtheria without calling a physician.

"This is a victory for followers of the sect two contended that they had a right under the Constitution of the United States to care for the sick as they thought best.

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