Jameson v. Weld
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Motion and Exceptions by Dependant. This was an action on the case against the defendant, a physician and surgeon, for malpractice in treating the plaintiff for an injury to the elbow of the right arm. The plea was the general issue.
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On Motion and Exceptions by Dependant. This was an action on the case against the defendant, a physician and surgeon, for malpractice in treating the plaintiff for an injury to the elbow of the right arm. The plea was the general issue. The verdict was for the plaintiff for $500.00. Besides a general motion for a new trial, exception is taken by the defendant to the following extracts from the charge of the presiding justice: 1. The presiding justice, after having called the attention of the jury to the injury and the treatment by the defendant in reducing the dislocation and fracture, if…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
This is an action on the case for damages alleged to have been occasioned by the surgical malpractice of the defendant, who is a physician and surgeon. The defendant was called to attend the plaintiff a short time after she received injuries to her right elbow joint, and it appears that he diagnosed them as a fracture and a dislocation. That there was a dislocation of both the ulna and the radius is not questioned. That there also was a fracture of some bone or bones in the elbow joint is in dispute. The defendant insists that the evidence tends strongly to show the affirmative of that…
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