Gore v. Veith

WESTERFIELD, Judge.

This is a suit for $112.50, the amount alleged to be due Dr. Samuel Davis Gore, under an agreement for the performance of dental work for the daughter of the defendant. The defense is, in effect, a plea of payment, and, in the alternative, the prescription of three years is pleaded.

From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor, as prayed for, defendant has appealed.

The contention of defendant is that the prescription of three years established by article 3538, Rev. Civ. Code, applies to dentists, who may properly be included within the class of “physicians, surgeons and…