Lemon v. Kessel

On or about August 13, 1918, appellee, wbo was a farmer, was injured by tbe fall of a bay derrick, which resulted in an oblique fracture of tbe femur of bis right leg, an alleged injury to bis knee, and an alleged fracture of tbe neck of tbe femur. Dr. Jinderlee was immediately called, and took charge of the patient. He moved him to the hospital at Cresco. Dr. Kessel, one of the appellants, was the chief surgeon of that hospital. On the succeeding day, the appellants, Kessel and Jinderlee, reduced the fracture of the femur, applied splints thereto, and, by the use of weights attached to the…