Baer v. Williams

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

This is an action by one physician against another for professional services rendered to a patient of the latter. The plaintiff visited the defendant’s patient at the request of the defendant, who was the attending physician. There was no agreement between the two physicians either as to the amount to be charged for the plaintiff’s visit or as to whether it was to be charged to the attending physician or to his patient. There was proof that the patient was the defendant’s mother-in-law and a member of his family at the time, and also that…