Hitchcock v. Burgett

This was an action of trespass on the case to recover damages for alleged negligence and want of skill of defendants who were surgeons, in their treatment of a severe injury to plaintiff’s hip.

Errors are assigned based upon the ruling of the court in relation to the admissibility of certain evidence, and these questions will first be considered.

It was claimed on the part of the defendants that plaintiff soon after being taken to Detroit, threw off the splints, got up and walked about on crutches. He was asked if he had not caused a letter to be written to Frank Curtis by one of the hospital…