Stockham v. Hall

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action for damages against a physician for malpractice predicated'on alleged negligent treatment of .an injury to plaintiff’s ankle.

Plaintiff is a farmer residing about four miles from McPherson. Defendant is a physician and surgeon of long experience, who resides in McPherson and who had been the physician of plaintiff’s family for many years.

In the late afternoon of May 11, 1934, while trimming a horse’s hoofs in his barnyard, the beast trampled on plaintiff’s right ankle, causing serious injury thereto. In the record the…