Lathrope v. Flood

The plaintiffs are husband and wife, and seek hereby to recover damages from the defendant for injuries sustained by the plaintiff Margaret, by reason of the acts and conduct of the defendant towards her at the time of her confinement. The defendant is a physician, and had been engaged by the wife to attend her upon that occasion. Upon being summoned to her residence therefor, he found the case to be somewhat complicated, and that it would be necessary to make use of instruments for the purpose of removing the child from the mother. Upon inserting the instruments for this purpose the mother…