Haas v. Tegtmeier

Per Curiam: This action was brought by the appellant against appellee, who is a physician, for the recovery of damages alleged to have been caused by appellee bringing into and infecting appellant and his minor children with small-pox while appellee was treating the wife of appellant for pneumonia. The first count of the amended declaration charges that appellee, during the time he was treating appellant’s wife, was also treating a patient for small-pox; that it became the duty of appellee to exercise reasonable care and caution to avoid carrying and spreading said contagious disease to the…