Hoener v. Koch

This was case, in the circuit court of Adams county, wherein Peter Hoener was plaintiff, and John W. Koch and Gaylord D. Beehe were defendants. They were declared against, as professional and practical surgeons, for malpractice as such, hy means of which the plaintiff was seriously injured. The case was one of strangulated hernia, and the practice of which complaint is made is alleged to have been unskilful, the operation unnecessary and the diagnosis unscientific.

Koch pleaded not guilty, and Beebe defaulted. On the trial, there was a verdict of not guilty, whereupon the default of Beebe was…