Bevier v. Galloway

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in the circuit court of Cass county, in favor of James Galloway, against Edwin Bevier, for the sum of $100.

The suit was brought to recover for medical services rendered by the plaintiff to the wife of the defendant.

It appears from the evidence that, in the fall of 1870, defendant’s wife left him, and went to her father’s, some ten miles distant, and there remained until January, 1872, when she died. The plaintiff, a physician, was employed by Mrs. Bevier to attend her about the 1st of May, 1871, and she had his services until her death. At the time…