Phillips v. Wright

BROWN, Justice.

This cause was instituted by appellant in the district court of Montague county against the appellee, a practicing physician and surgeon, alleging that appellant was severely injured by a bus owned by the North Texas Coach Company; that he was taken to ap-pellee’s hospital in Bowie, Tex., where ap-pellee, who held himself out to the public as a skilled physician and surgeon, undertook to treat appellant.

Appellant alleged: That “the defendant in setting the bones in the plaintiff’s leg carelessly and negligently set the same so that they would not knit together and make such a…