Union Hospital v. S. P. Brown & Co.

On the morning of September 1, 1936, one Merle Smedley, an employee of the appellee S. P. Brown and Company suffered a compensable injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment by said company. Smedley’s injury created an emergency, demanding immediate medical treatment, hospital and nurse’s services and supplies. The appellee S. P. Brown and Company at the time in question did not have a regularly employed physician and surgeon to treat its injured employees; nor did it have a designated hospital to which they were to be taken for treatment, nurse’s services and…