Spears Free Clinic & Hospital for Poor Children v. Maier

Plaintiff, Spears Free Clinic and Hospital for Poor Children, is a Colorado corporation not for profit, which operates a chiropractic clinic known as Spears Clinic, and a chiropractic sanitarium known as Spears Sanitarium. Defendant Maier is a physician. One Susia A. Bowers was received as a patient in the Spears Sanitarium on May 28, 1946, and remained there until the evening of June 3, 1946, when she was removed to a hospital where she was under the care of defendant. The day after such removal surgery was performed on her, following which she died. On June 7, 1946, the day of her death,…