Short v. Frink

This is an appeal by defendant, a physician and surgeon, from a judgment for eight thousand dollars given in favor of plaintiff in an action brought to recover damages for alleged malpractice. The only matters presented for our consideration on this appeal are certain rulings of the trial court in the admission of evidence.

Plaintiff sustained a compound fracture of the tibia bone of his right leg on December 8, 1901. Defendant was immediately employed to treat plaintiff for this injury, and continued to attend him until December 31, 1901, when plaintiff became dissatisfied with him, and,…