Raoul v. Newman
Supreme Court of Georgia
Charge of court. Contracts. Principal and agent. Parent and child. Before Judge Hill. , Bibb Superior Court. April Term, 1877. This was complaint; by Newman against Raoul, on an account for medical services rendered one Kit Rutland, on the employment of the defendant. The jury found for the plaintiff $425.00. The defendant moved for a new trial, on numerous grounds, but mainly because of alleged errors in the charge of the court.
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Charge of court. Contracts. Principal and agent. Parent and child. Before Judge Hill. , Bibb Superior Court. April Term, 1877. This was complaint; by Newman against Raoul, on an account for medical services rendered one Kit Rutland, on the employment of the defendant. The jury found for the plaintiff $425.00. The defendant moved for a new trial, on numerous grounds, but mainly because of alleged errors in the charge of the court. The charge, so far as material, is set forth in the opinion. The motion was overruled, and the defendant excepted.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Judge.
The defendant in error is a physician, and the action was by him against the plaintiff in error, for a surgical and medical bill, amounting to $425.00. The patient treated was a negro boy, thirteen or fourteen years of age, and the occasion for treatment arose from injuries received by the boy on the track of the Central Bailroad, in the yard of the company’s warehouse. Both his thighs were broken, his arm was crushed, his hand was badly mangled, and his scrotum was torn asunder, so that his testicles rested on the thighs. The evidence is in strong and stubborn conflict as to…
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