Scudder v. Crossan

This was an action brought by the appellee against the appellants for malpractice.

The complaint consists of three paragraphs.

The first alleges that the appellants were practising physicians and surgeons, and as such were called on by Thomas Crossan, a boy of the age of ten years, the child and servant of the appellee, and requested to set his broken arm, which he then had; that they pretended to do so; that they did it unskilfully, negligently, and unprofessionally, by reason-whereof his arm became inflamed and to such an extent mortified that it necessarily had to be amputated. - ',

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