Hurley v. Eddingfield

Baker, J.-j

Appellant sued appellee for $10,000 damages for wrongfully causing the dea[h of his intestate. The court sustained appellee’s demurrer to the complaint; and this ruling is assigned as error.

The material facts alleged may be summarized thus:' At and for years before decedent’s death appellee was a practicing physician at Mace in Montgomery county, duly licensed under the laws of the State. He held himself out to the public as a general practitioner of medicine. He had been decedent’s family physician. Decedent became dangerously ill and sent for appellee.. The messenger informed…