Byers v. Bacon
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 279, Jan. T., 1914, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. York Go., April T., 1913, No. 57, on directed verdict for defendant in the case of Edgar J.. Byers v. William F. Bacon. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Ross, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The court directed a verdict for defendant, upon which judgment tvas entered. Plaintiff appealed.' Errors assigned were rulings on evidence and in giving binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Potter,
The defendant in this case, a physician and surgeon, was charged by the plaintiff with negligence in failing to remove at the proper time, a rubber tube, which during the progress of a surgical operation performed on the plaintiff by defendant, had been inserted in the wound for drainage purposes. In the statement of claim, the *566plaintiff alleged that the operation was performed by defendant at the York hospital, where he was head of the staff of physicians. That on March 21, 1910, plaintiff was discharged from the hospital as a patient by defendant, and was told…
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