Thompson v. Anderson

George W. Thompson and his wife, Gertrude E. Thompson, lived on a farm near Woodbine, Harrison county, Iowa. On August 20, 1932, Gertrude E. Thompson stepped on a stick of wood which turned up and struck the top of her foot and inflicted a wound thereon. Home remedies were applied to the wound, and after a few days the inflammation and swelling which followed the injury seemed to have subsided. On August 30, 1932, Mrs. Thompson complained of stiffness in her jaws, pain in her face and neck ■and inability to swallow, and on the afternoon of that day she and her husband called at the office of…