Benton v. Stadler

Susan Stadler is a single woman more than twenty-one years of age. She lived with her father. Although she occasionally had employment from which she earned small sums, it does not appear that her earnings were sufficient to support her. At any rate, she paid her father nothing for her maintenance.

On March 10, 1927, she called at the office of plaintiff, a practicing physician in the city of Appleton, for professional services. The plaintiff discovered that she was suffering from appendicitis and told her that an operation was necessary. She then told the doctor to call her father, the…