Jackson v. Hansard

Blume, Justice.

The plaintiff in this case, Fred V. Jackson, brought this action to recover damages from the defendant, Dr. Hansard, on account of malpractice. He claims that on May 28,1929, while the defendant performed an operation on him for appendicitis, he negligently left a large sponge in the plaintiff’s abdominal cavity; that the sponge, or gauze —the terms being synonymous — gradually worked its way through the wall of the large intestines, about five feet in length, and was discharged from the intestines through the rectum on September 7, 1929, three months and ten days after the…