Martin v. Cunningham
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Clifford, J., entered March 19, 1915, upon granting a nonsuit, dismissing an action for malpractice, tried to the court and a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
On November 7, 1913, R. H. Martin, a fireman in the employ of the Great Northern Railway Company, fractured the tibia of his left leg in jumping from an engine to avoid a head-on collision. He was taken to a hospital in Spokane and placed in charge of the company’s local surgeon, John G. Cunningham, who treated him from that date until about March 10, 1914. Satisfactory results not having been effected under the treatment accorded by the surgeon, another surgeon was called in by Martin, who operated on him and produced better results, but did not obtain a perfect cure of the injured leg.
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