Rayburn v. Day

The assignments of error are based upon the admission and exclusion of evidence, and instructions to the jury. In order to facilitate the disposition of these assignments of error it will be helpful if we bear in mind the following undisputed facts: the plaintiff, a woman forty-three years of age, consulted one Dr. R. H. Fields, a physician engaged in his practice in the City of Eugene. About July 11th, Dr. Fields called in consultation the defendant : the two physicians concluded that the plaintiff had an infection of the pelvic region of the body; they advised her that a surgical operation…