Burton v. Tribble

Appellant instituted this suit in the Garland Circuit Court against appellee, alleging, that appellee was, at all the times hereinafter stated, and is now, a duly practicing physician and surgeon; that in the year 1926 appellant employed appellee to perform, and that he did perform, a major operation upon her abdomen or abdominal cavity; that, at the conclusion of said operation, appellee carelessly and negligently left remaining in her abdominal cavity a ball of gauze 1% inches in diameter, and that appellee carelessly and negligently closed the incision into her abdominal cavity without…