Marchand v. Bellin
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Brown county: S. D. Hastings, Circuit Judge. Action for malpractice. On the 23d of January, 1912, plaintiff, aged fifty-two, by falling from a ladder, sustained a severe Pott’s fracture of the left foot in which the fibula was somewhat splintered and the ligaments of the ankle joint ruptured. He went to the defendant the same day for treatment.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Brown county: S. D. Hastings, Circuit Judge. Action for malpractice. On the 23d of January, 1912, plaintiff, aged fifty-two, by falling from a ladder, sustained a severe Pott’s fracture of the left foot in which the fibula was somewhat splintered and the ligaments of the ankle joint ruptured. He went to the defendant the same day for treatment. Owing to the swelling of the joint and an abrasion of the shin the defendant did not invert the foot for fear of gangrene. The swelled condition, under the treatment given, continued till February 13th…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed June 11, 1914:
Yikue, J.
A Pott’s fracture is a fracture of the lower ° part of the fibula accompanied with injury to the ankle joint so that the foot is dislocated outward. Webster, Hew Int. Diet. The evidence shows that plaintiff’s fracture was a very severe one in which the fibula was splintered and the ligaments of the ankle joint ruptured, that the foot was very much swelled and discolored and the skin partly abraded in places at the time of the first treatment. At to its condition at that time, January 23d, and from then till'about the 13th of February,…
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