Owens v. McCleary

RAGLAND, P. J. —

This is an action for malpractice. Plaintiff obtained judgment in tbe circuit court for $15,-000, to reverse which defendant prosecutes this appeal.

The petition after setting out preliminarily that plaintiff was afflicted with a mild case of piles,-that defendant represented and held himself out as a physician specially skilled in the treatment'of piles and that as such physician undertook to treat plaintiff for that disease, charges negligence as follows:

“That in so doing” [treating plaintiff] he negligently and carelessly caused to be inserted into the rectum of the…