Hatcher v. Camp

LAWSON, Justice.

On January 8, 1962, the plaintiff, a boy then fourteen years of age, was accidentally shot in the back with a .410 gauge shotgun by a young hunting companion. -He was carried to a hospital in Sylacauga and defendant, a physician of that city, was employed to attend the case. Plaintiff was operated on in the hospital at Sylacauga by a surgeon from Birmingham on January 19, 1962. He was later removed to a hospital in Birmingham, where several other operations were performed on him by the same surgeon. Plaintiff insists that the several operations, the long periods of…