Hirsch v. Montgomery

This is a suit for One hundred fifty ($150.00) Dollars, balance due on a surgeon’s bill of Three hundred ($300.00) Dollars for a successful appendicitis operation on the wife of defendant, performed on September 22, 1923.

The defense is a denial of the indebtedness accompanied by a plea of prescription.

There was judgment for plaintiff and defendant has appealed.

*244The evidence shows that the operation was performed on September 22, 1923, by plaintiff, after his diagnosis and recommendation of operation had been confirmed by Dr. H. B. Gessner, a surgeon of high repute in this city; that bill for…