Morgan v. Engles

This malpractice action was commenced by the mother as next friend of John Morgan, who,, on June 17, 1958, while 4 years of age suffered a severe fracture of the left elbow. Defendant, a doctor of medicine, engaged in general practice in Richmond, Michigan, set the fracture on the day of injury.

The boy’s injury was described by defendant as a supracondylar fracture of the humerus with displacement. It was a comminuted fracture, that is, having more than 2 fragments. The doctor set the fracture in a closed reduction, that is to say, without surgery. After recurrent trouble with the arm,…