Ball v. Skinner

It is the claim of the plaintiff that on April 10, 1900, he suffered an injury to his ankle and employed the defendant, a physician and surgeon for many years at Cedar Bapids, Iowa, to treat it. In the course of such treatment he alleges that the defendant undertook to place a cast upon or about the injured ankle, and in so doing carelessly and negligently made use of a caustic preparation or solution which had the effect to burn and injure the flesh; that later upon the same day, plaintiff experiencing great pain in and about his ankle, he recalled the defendant, who made but a slight…