Thaggard v. Vafes

This action is by the administratrix of the estate of Leon W. Hylton, deceased, against the appellant for wrongfully causing his death. Code of 1923, § 5696.

The counts of the complaint, A and B, on which the case was tried, in substance, aver that on and prior to the 26th day of August, 1926, the defendant was a practicing physician in the city of Birmingham, Alabama, and as such undertook for a reward to treat the plaintiff’s intestate for an illness or disease of which he was then suffering, and that the defendant so negligently conducted himself in that regard that plaintiff’s intestate…