Beach v. Chollett

This is an action brought by Virginia Beach, a minor, through her next friend, to recover damages for malpractice, and the trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendant.

Virginia Beach was injured on December 9, 1925, when she was about 10 years of age, by falling on the steps of a schoolhouse. This fall resulted in a fracture of the femur bone of her left leg. She was removed to a hospital for treatment, and was there attended by Dr. Chollett, who set the broken bone and treated her thereafter. The plaintiff claims that the reduction of the fracture was unskillfully done, so that…