Olney v. Cavell

ARCHBALD, J., pro tem.

Action by plaintiffs to recover damages from defendant physician for alleged malpractice in treating a child of plaintiffs. Defendant denied all material allegations of the complaint except that of the death of such child, and set up as a bar to the action a judgment for $75 in his favor and against plaintiffs for the reasonable value of the services rendered by him in treating the child. Such judgment was entered on the verdict of a jury in the justice’s court of Gardena township, and in their answer filed in said court plaintiffs here interposed the defense that said…