Ingram v. Harris

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

This is a civil action by Mrs. Leta V. Ingram, as administratrix of the estate of Thomas C. Ingram, deceased, against H. A. Harris, a physician and surgeon, for malpractice, alleged to have caused the death of said Thomas C. Ingram.

The action may be sustained on proof of a failure to exercise reasonable and ordinary care, diligence and skill in respect to the duty so assumed and undertaken as physician and surgeon such care and skill as physicians and surgeons in the same general neighborhood, pursuing the same general line of practice, ordinarily employ and exercise in a…