Ligon v. Allen

*102Opinion op the Court by

Judge Milker

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment obtained by [Amos Allen, who sues by his guardian, against the appellant, Dr. Peyton Ligón, for damages for alleged malpractice in the treatment of appellee’s broken arm.

On December 4, 1911, the appellee, a boy about nine years of age, fell from a box to the floor of his father’s store, and fractured the bone in his arm called the humerus, about two inches above the elbow. The appellant, a practicing physician, was promptly called and set the arm, binding it in splints and leaving the finger tips exposed.

Appellant…