Wills v. International & Great Northern Railroad

FISHER, Chief Justice.

This is a suit by the appellants against the railway company to recover $250, as the reasonable value of the services of appellants as physicians and surgeons for medical treatment given to one Scott, who was run over and injured by one of the defendant’s trains at the town of Leroy. That one of the legs of Scott was cut off by the train, and the other bruised and mangled just below the knee, which necessitated the amputation of both legs above the knee in an attempt to save the man’s life;, that it was a case of emergency and urgent necessity, demanding immediate…