Duffey v. Kilroe

Mrs. Frances M. Botto, now deceased, was a woman of wealth, whose home was at Natchez, Miss., but who spent several of the later years of her life in the city of New York, during which time she was suffering from a disease because of which she demanded and received the daily professional services of appellee, a physician. The services rendered by appellee continued over a period of several years, and Mrs. Botto would make him *9payments thereon at intervals, which payments were credited by appellee upon his hooks to Mrs. Botto generally, neither she nor he applying them to any particular items…