Davis v. Rodman
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Independence Circuit Court; D. H. Coleman, Judge; 1. The court erred in sustaining the demurrer and dismissing the complaint, as defendants were guilty of actionable negligence.
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Appeal from Independence Circuit Court; D. H. Coleman, Judge; 1. The court erred in sustaining the demurrer and dismissing the complaint, as defendants were guilty of actionable negligence. It was the duty of defendants to protect plaintiffs from injury. 29 Cyc. 419. 2. The demurrer admits every allegation in the complaint to be true. 90 Ark. 158; 102 Id. 380; 104 Id. 466; 94 Id. 505; 94 Id. 453. 3. Defendants failed to take the precautions required by the board of health and are liable. Rules and Regulations State Board of Health, January 1, 1918, p. 16, § 92. They negligently failed to…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
This action was brought by appellants against the appellees to recover damages. The appellants alleged in substance that the appellees were regularly licensed and practicing physicians associated together as partners and doing a general practice of medicine at Newark and vicinity in Independence County, Arkansas: that appellants were man and wife, having a family of six minor children, and two adult married sons, who lived in their own homes apart from the appellants; that one of these sons, Curtis Davis, on June 15, 1919, was stricken with typhoid fever; that their son Lawson nursed him and…
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