Edwards v. Quackenbush

The defendant in error, a young housewife, to whom we shall hereinafter refer as plaintiff, brought the action, here for review, against plaintiff in error, a physician and surgeon, hereinafter to be called defendant, and his then codefendant Dr. L. James Dixon, to recover damages in the sum of $25,000 allegedly resulting from the negligent severance of plaintiff’s ileum (the lower portion of the small intestine) from the caecum (the cul-de-sac in which the large intestine begins) in the performance of an appendix operation, and negligently binding together of small loops of the small…