Brooks v. Herd

This is an action by respondent to recover from appellant, a drugless healer, damages for his reckless and negligent treatment of a venereal disease with which respondent was then suffering. Appellant was employed about September 13, 1924, upon, what respondent alleged in his complaint and testified at the trial was a contract to cure respondent for the agreed price of sixty or seventy dollars. Appellant treated respondent from the date of the employment until about January 28, 1925, when, according to the allegation and testimony of respondent, appellant pronounced respondent cured and…