Greensfelder v. Witte Hardware Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — How. Rhodes E. Cave, Judge. (1) Where one person merely requests a physician to perform services for another, the law does not raise an implied promise, on the part of the one making the request, to pay for the services so rendered. Meisenbach v. Cooperage Company, 45 Mo. App. 232; Jesserich v. Walruff, 51 Mo. App. 270; Ghio v. Schaper 'Bros. Mercantile Co., 180 Mo.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — How. Rhodes E. Cave, Judge. (1) Where one person merely requests a physician to perform services for another, the law does not raise an implied promise, on the part of the one making the request, to pay for the services so rendered. Meisenbach v. Cooperage Company, 45 Mo. App. 232; Jesserich v. Walruff, 51 Mo. App. 270; Ghio v. Schaper 'Bros. Mercantile Co., 180 Mo. App. 686, 163 S. W. 553; Morrell v. Lawrence, 203 Mo. 363. (2) An employer is under no legal obligation to provide medical or surgical treatment for an employee who has been injured…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
This is an action by a physician and surgeon to recover for medical and surgical treatment rendered to an employee of defendant corporation who was injured while in defendant’s service. The cause originated before a justice of the peace, and in due course found its way to the. circuit court where, upon a trial before the court and a jury, there was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and the case is here upon defendant’s appeal.
On July 2, 1908, plaintiff, a practicing physician and surgeon in the city of St. Louis, was- called by telephone to defendant’s place of business on Second street,…
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