Baldwin v. Gaines
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case against a physician for malpractice in setting and caring for a fractured femur. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1916, Orleans County, Stanton, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Defendant excepted.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
This is an action against a physician for malpractice. There was evidence tending to show that the plaintiff was in an automobile accident and suffered a simple, oblique fracture of the middle third of the right femur. He was taken to a hotel in Newport, where he was attended by the defendant and another physician, Dr. Blanchard. These two doctors, with other assistance, set the leg, making use of a long splint, called a .Liston splint. Both doctors attended the plaintiff for a time, and the defendant attended him until he was moved to his home in Irasburgh, on December 20, 1913, which was…
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