Smith v. Coleman

The defendants, who are physicians and surgeons, have appealed from a judgment entered against them in the sum of $6000 in an action in which plaintiff based his complaint upon the malpractice of defendants.

Plaintiff was injured on June 18, 1938, while in the course of his employment by the Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company as a body builder and welder. The injury consisted of a deep laceration nearly encircling the little finger of his left hand, which exposed the tendons, and of a fracture of the proximal phalanx of the little finger, the bone having been broken into five pieces. At the…