Mitchell v. Peaslee

This action to recover damages for alleged malpractice by the defendant, a practicing physician, is reported on an agreed statement of facts.

The declaration is that the plaintiff, as a result of an accident while employed by a local lumber concern, broke the radius of his left arm at the wrist, the defendant was called in as attending physician and through his negligence in only applying splints and no cast the broken bone did not knit properly or remain in normal position, the displacement was not corrected when the splints were removed and permanent partial loss of the use of the arm has…