Pope v. McGill

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon the report of a referee, The action was prosecuted against the defendants jointly to recover for medical services rendered by the plaintiff as a physician. The defendant Charles McGill failed to answer. The defendant Lottie McGill, who was his wife, answered, setting up her coverture, alleging that the services were rendered for her husband in furnishing medical attendance for his family, and denying any liability for the same on her part. The evidence shows that the defendants were husband and wife, and that the services were rendered the family…