Piles v. Hughes
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Lee District Court. The plaintiff brought his action to recover damages, which he claimed to have sustained on account of the unskillful and negligent treatment of a fractured leg, by defendant, as a physician and surgeon. Judgment for the defendant in the District Court, from which the plaintiff appeals. The errors assignéd relate to the admissibility of certain evidence, and the giving and refusing certain instructions to the jury, in the trial below.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwiN, J.
The first error assigned relates to the ruling of the court, in admitting the testimony of Kendall, introduced by the defendant.
The plaintiff having introduced certain evidence fending to prove that his limb was shortened while under the treat*580ment of defendant, as a surgeon, and that when defendant discharged the plaintiff from treatment, the fractured limb was shorter than the other — the defendant’s counsel asked the witness, Kendall, if he was present when the defendant discharged the plaintiff from further treatment; and whether he saw the measurement of plaintiff’s limb by defendant, and…
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