Horne v. Williams

This was an action by the appellee against the appellants, to recover damages for carelessness, negligence, and unskillfulness on the part of the defendants, as sm’geons, in reducing and attending to a fractured limb of the plaintiff. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, a motion for a new trial, made by the defendants, being overruled, and exceptions properly taken.

From the bill of exceptions, it appears that on the trial the plaintiff had introduced and examined as a witness, one John C. Helm, a physician, from whom she elicited professional opinions. In his testimony he spoke of a case…