Carraway v. Graham

Action by appellee against appellant for malpractice. The allegation of the complaint is that "defendant was a physician and surgeon in Jefferson county, Ala., and as such undertook for hire and reward * * * to treat plaintiff for an injury to his hip he was then suffering with, and plaintiff avers that defendant so negligently conducted himself in or about his treatment of the plaintiff under said undertaking as that," etc. Looking to the evidence in the record it may safely be said that plaintiff's illness had its origin in a blow or kick received by him while engaged in a game of football…