Piper v. Menifee

Judge Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This action of assumpsit was brought by Menifee, a physician, to recover the amount of his bill for medi*466Cal services, &c., to the defendant and his family. The ease went to trial on the general issue, and after the plaintiff had proved his account, it was proved on the part of the defendant, that on the first visit of plaintiff to attend the defendant, he was sent for while at the defendant’s house, to go to one Hoffman’s, and was then told by ihe -wife -of defendant who was himself very ill, that if he went to see patients that had the small…