Julius Bascom McBride v. United States

JONES, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Julius Bascom McBride, had been practicing osteopathy in Houston, Texas, for nearly twenty years. Among his patients and friends was L. D. Morrison, who was Chief of Police in Houston during the occurrence of the happenings out of which this appeal arose. Morrison was thrown into an automobile' in the latter part of 1951 and this incident or other cause resulted in a back injury, diagnosed as a ruptured in- tervertebral disc, attended by severe pain. In January, 1952, he consulted Dr. J. T. Billups, a surgeon, who sent him to a hospital where he was given…