Pratt v. Davis
Illinois Supreme Court
Appear from the Appellate Court for the First heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. F. TurEy, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Scott
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court for the First District affirming a judgment of the circuit court of Cook county in favor of appellee and against appellant, for the sum of $3000, in an action for trespass to the person.
Appellant is a physician in the city of Chicago, and at the time of the wrong charged was engaged in conducting a sanitarium on Diversey boulevard. Appellee, a married woman about forty years of age and a resident of the same city, came to this sanitarium for treatment for epilepsy in May, 1896. She had been subject to epileptic seizures for a period of…
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