Schultz v. Tasche
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Sheboy-gan county: Michael KibwaN, Circuit Judge. Action for malpractice. October 31, 1915, plaintiff, then, about eighteen years of age, fractured the femur of her right leg.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Sheboy-gan county: Michael KibwaN, Circuit Judge. Action for malpractice. October 31, 1915, plaintiff, then, about eighteen years of age, fractured the femur of her right leg. She employed the defendants to treat her, and charges that by reason of their negligent and unskilful treatment the ends of the broken bone were not put in apposition but were-negligently allowed to override and unite, thus causing a shortening, lameness, weakness, and pain in the leg. The jury found: (1) the defendants failed to use ordinary care and skill as physicians…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 4, 1917:
Viitje, J.
Plaintiff was injured the last day of October and was at once taken to the St. Nicholas hospital in Sheboy-gan, where she remained under defendants’ care and treatment till December 12th, when she went home in an automobile to Plymouth, about fifteen miles distant, and did not return for further treatment. In answer to the third question of the special verdict the jury found that there was a failure on plaintiff’s part to use ordinary care which contributed to produce the deformity in her leg. It is claimed that this finding bars her…
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