City of Lawrence v. Inhabitants of Methuen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by the city of Lawrence against the town of Methuen for $1,200 paid for medical attendance, medicine and food and the board of a cook and nurse furnished for Frank H. Brown, afflicted with smallpox for twenty-four days in February, 1900, in the city of Lawrence and alleged to have a settlement in ■ Methuen.
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Contract by the city of Lawrence against the town of Methuen for $1,200 paid for medical attendance, medicine and food and the board of a cook and nurse furnished for Frank H. Brown, afflicted with smallpox for twenty-four days in February, 1900, in the city of Lawrence and alleged to have a settlement in ■ Methuen. Writ dated January 20, 1902. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Holmes, J. George O. Marsh, called as an expert witness for the defendant, testified that for the past sixteen years he had been an overseer of the poor and a member of the board of health of the town of…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
1. The exception is not well taken to the finding that Marsh was not qualified as an expert.
What distinguishes the case at bar from Kendall v. May, 10 Allen, 59, is that no professional services were rendered in that case, while here the question called for an opinion on the amount reasonably due as compensation for the professional services of Dr. O’Connor. We do not go so far as to say that one who is not a doctor could not qualify as an expert on the question of the reasonableness of the fees charged by a physician for medical services, yet the practical result which would follow if every…
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