Kerley v. Hoehman

Opinion by

EDWARDS, C.

For convenience the parties will be referred to- as plaintiffs and defendant, according to their position in the lower court.

The record discloses: That the plaintiffs are husband and wife and parents of Robert Hoehman, deceased. That defendant is a practicing physician and was the attending physician at the birth of said Robert Hoeh man, a normal healthy child, born'July 6, 1911. That a few days after the birth of said Robert Hoehman the defendant, as a physician, had prescribed for one Hoops, a cousin of the plaintiff Arthur P. Hoehman. The said Hoops was a young man,…