Donaldson v. Maffucci

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

Dorothy Donaldson, the wife-appellant, was injured in an automobile accident in the late evening of July 17, 1954 and admitted to the Bedford County Memorial Hospital in the early morning of July 18, 1954. The appellee, Dr. Maffucci, her private physician, was summoned and upon his arrival at the hospital an X-ray examination, at his direction, was made of Mrs. Donaldson’s left wrist and jaw. This examination indicated a “Colics fracture” of the left wrist consisting of a “fracture of the distal radial metaphysis with marked posterior and lateral…