Cothran v. Lee
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Cherokee. Tried before the Hon. Thomas A. Walker. Assumpsit by Lee against Cothran for medical services rendered defendant’s wife. The facts of the case appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPhelan, J.
In this caso the proof shows, that a sou of Cothran, of full age, who lived with his father, at the request of his mother, who was sick, hut against the objection of his father, called in Leo, the defendant in error, who was a practicing physician, to attend on his mother. The father, when the son spoke of calling in Dr. Lee, told him, if he did so, he must do it on his own responsibility, to which the son assented. The doctor was called in by the son, to attend on his mother. The father was present generally during his attendance upon his wife, and did not give any notice that the son had…
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