Saucier v. Ross
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Forest county. Hon. Paul B. JohusoN, Judge. Suit by Mrs. E. T. Saucier against Dr. T. E. Boss. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Forest county. Hon. Paul B. JohusoN, Judge. Suit by Mrs. E. T. Saucier against Dr. T. E. Boss. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. Tlie facts are fully stated in tbe opinion of the court. ' In the case of Davis v. Kerr, 239 Pa. 86, Atl. 1007, 46 L. B. A. (N. S.) 611, a case on all-fours with the instant case, and with all the authorities collated in the note of L. B. A., it was held: 1. Surgeons cannot relieve themselves from liability for injury to a patient by leaving a sponge in the wound after an operation, by adoption of a rule requiring the…
1Opinion of the Court
Potter, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
This is a suit brought by Mrs. E. T. Saucier against Dr. T. E. Boss, in. the circuit court of Forest county, upon allegations in tbe declaration that tbe defendant bad been negligent in an operation on appellant for an abscess, and tbe subsequent treatment.
Tbe gravamen of tbe plaintiff’s suit is that tbe defendant bad left certain foreign substances in her body, after tbe operation, for such length of time that her wounds partially healed, covering up tbe said foreign substances, alleged to have been a rubber drainage tube, about four inches long…
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