Goodsell v. Seeley

The defendant in error, an infant, brought suit against Goodsell, who is a physician, for malpractice in setting her arm. Goodsell had treated the injury as a fracture of the humerus, but after two or three weeks it was discovered that there was a dislocation at the elbow, and another physician was called in, by whom the dislocation was properly treated. There was a fair question on the evidence whether Goodsell had been laboring under any mistake in his treatment; whether the fracture for which he treated the child had not existed in fact, and whether the child had not caused the dislocation…