Fisher v. Niccolls

This is a suit in case by appellee against appellants who were practicing physicians, for alleged malpractice in the treatment of the appellee’s hand for a severe injury received the day before they were called. It is claimed that appellants so negligently and unskillfnlly conducted themselves that it became necessary to amputate the hand of appellee, and that the same was lost to him by reason of their negligence, unskillfulness and want of care.

It is not insisted or claimed, so far as we can discover by the record, that appellants are not properly educated and skilled in their profession,…