McDonald v. Randolph

This action is for damages for injuries alleged to have been suffered by plaintiff Margaret McDonald while she was a patient in a hospital. Defendant and appellant is a physician and surgeon. It was alleged that on April 24, 1944, plaintiffs, husband and wife, employed defendant to perform an operation for an appendectomy upon Mrs. McDonald ; that the operation was unskillfully and negligently performed, and that as a result thereof Mrs. McDonald suffered certain serious burns and that the cure therefor was prolonged by reason of unskillfulness on the part of defendant in treating them.…