Carson v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Api)eal from Jackson District Gourt. — Wm. Ti-ieophilus, Judge. Action to recover for services rendered by plaintiff as a surgeon, in treating an employee of defendant’s named Watson, and for services of Dr. Armstrong in assisting, and for hospital charges, the latter claims having been assigned to plaintiff. Trial was had to a jury, and on verdict for plaintiff, judgment was entered. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
1. Principal AND AGENT : powers of agent: railroads : employment of physicians: ratification. One Watson, a colored man. had been enq/loyed by the defendant on grading or cement work in the vicinity of Brown. The 20th of September, 1913, Avas rainy, and he and other colored men, having laid off for the day, had gathered at a house in the village. At about 5 o’clock- in the afternoon, some of them informed Simpson, assistant foreman of defendant, that a man had been cut. Fpon entering the house, Simpson found Watson bleeding and his intestines protruding. With the aid of others, he loaded him…
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