Cayford v. Wilbur

Action on the case to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the alleged careless, unskillful and negligent manner in which the defendant as a surgeon treated the plaintiff in reducing a fracture of both bones of the plaintiff’s leg. A verdict was rendered for $2075, and the case is now before the court on motion of the defendant to set aside that verdict.

*415A careful examination of the evidence satisfies us that the motion cannot properly be sustained.

Upon the legal propositions which the case presents, and by which the defendant in the discharge of his duties must be…