An action seriously affecting the interests of the medical profession has been brought by Mr. William Smart Harnett, a farmer, of Springfield, Newington, near Sittingbourne, Kent, against Dr. Charles Hubert Bond, a Commissioner in Lunacy, and Dr. George Henry Adam, the manager of a house for the reception of lunatics at Mailing Place, West Mailing, Kent, and the hearing, including the argument on the jury's findings and the delivery of the judgment, before Mr. Justice Lush, in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, lasted from February 7 to 29—seventeen days in all. The action was for damages for alleged conspiracy, assault, and false imprisonment, and the jury on the fifteenth day returned a verdict in the plaintiff's favour, awarding a sum of $25,000 as damages. In the preparation of the following account we have made much use of the reports published in the Times.