Link v. . Sheldon
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of tlie General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made April 26, 1892, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict and affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from judgment of tlie General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made April 26, 1892, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict and affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. In an action to recover damages for alleged negligence causing a personal injury, declarations of the party injured, made after the injury, to the effect that he is suffering pain and what kind of pain, not made to a physician for the purpose…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
The action was brought against certain physicians to recover damages for their unskillfulness, or their negligence, in the treatment of the plaintiff for a fracture of the bones of his right forearm; whereby his hand was permanently deformed, in part, and a verdict was recovered of $4,000 ; which recovery the General Term has affirmed. The apparent severity of the verdict, the nature of the issue which involved the question of the competency of defendants as medical practitioners, and the earnestness with which the appellants have insisted upon the commission of errors upon the trial, have…
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