Pratt v. Davis

Counsel for appellant in this case lay stress in their presentation of it on the apparent injustice of mulcting in damages one who in no view of the case, they say, can be said to have been actuated by any purpose other than that of using his best efforts in a sincere desire to heal the afflicted. We should be very sorry to believe that the court below had ignored or that this court could ignore the considerations which underlie this expression of feeling. We think that both courts, however, recognize adequately the great obligations to medical and surgical skill, under which all civilized…