Eddy v. Davidson
Supreme Court of Vermont
Book Account. The auditor reported as follows: “ The plaintiff’s account was for his services as physician in attending Lizzie Davidson, the defendant’s daughter, who was about twenty-two years old when such services were rendered, and for a bottle of liniment, furnished for a minor daughter of the defendant, at defendant’s wife’s request, on an occasion of one of the plaintiff’s visits to said Lizzie.
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Book Account. The auditor reported as follows: “ The plaintiff’s account was for his services as physician in attending Lizzie Davidson, the defendant’s daughter, who was about twenty-two years old when such services were rendered, and for a bottle of liniment, furnished for a minor daughter of the defendant, at defendant’s wife’s request, on an occasion of one of the plaintiff’s visits to said Lizzie. “ Said Lizzie had had her own earnings and paid her own bills since she became of age, and most of the time had been absent from her father’s, engaged in teaching and attending school, but…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Peck, J.
The plaintiff’s claim is for medical services rendered in doctoring the defendant’s daughter Lizzie, about twenty years of age, while sick at the defendant’s house, in his family. The question is, whether, upon the facts reported by the auditor, the defendant is legally liable. The fact that the defendant, on the occasion of the plaintiff’s first visit, requested him to attend Lizzie and do all he could for her, and be as reasonable in his charges as he could; for he supposed he should have the bills to foot; and on a subsequent visit again…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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