McFall v. Smith

This was an action on the case brought by appellee against appellant, charging him with negligent and unskillful practice as a physician. Appellee recovered a verdict for $900 upon which judgment was entered.

The declaration consisted of eight counts, the substance of which appears as follows, as taken from the abstract:

First count avers that defendant was a practicing physician; that as such physician plaintiff employed him, she being about to be delivered of a child, which employment was accepted by defendant, and he so unskillfully and negligently conducted himself, that thereby the…