Harriman v. Sanger
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Case against tbe defendant, a physican and surgeon, for malpractice in the treatment of congenital club-foot or talipes varus, brought by the plaintiff, seven years old, by next friend. The defendant cut the heel cord, the tendo aehitlis of each of the feet, May 22, 1871, when the plaintiff was 13 months old.
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On exceptions. Case against tbe defendant, a physican and surgeon, for malpractice in the treatment of congenital club-foot or talipes varus, brought by the plaintiff, seven years old, by next friend. The defendant cut the heel cord, the tendo aehitlis of each of the feet, May 22, 1871, when the plaintiff was 13 months old. The subsequent treatment was in bringing the toes and fore part of the feet round to their natural position and the heels down, applying modified Scarpa’s shoes, giving directions to the plaintiff’s mother to rub the feet, and subsequent calls to see the shoes fitted; and…
1Opinion of the CourtVirgin, J.
“To the above rulings and to the charge of the justice presiding the plaintiff excepts” is the language of the plaintiff’s bill of exceptions.
1. No ruling relating to the reading to the jury of the original interrogatories together with the deposition having been made or requested, the objection thereto is not covered by the bill of exceptions ; and therefore it cannot be considered. Moreover, if the objection were properly before us on motion, we cannot conceive how, in the absence of any suggestion of fraud, or of mistake in the copy, the plaintiff could be prejudiced by the act complained…
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