Hoover v. McCormick

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

In the course of this opinion we shall employ terms likely to he more easily comprehended and understood by the layman rather than the correct anatomical ones employed by the physician witnesses.

On March 29,1918, plaintiff and appellee here, W. B. McCormick, sustained a simple backward dislocation of his right elbow joint. It happened about twelve miles from the city of Owensboro and he called the defendant and appellant, J. C. Hoover, a practicing surgeon located at Owensboro, to take charge of the case and to render such services as he, in the…