Baker v. Wentworth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for medical and surgical attendance in performing two operations upon the defendant’s wife. Trial in the Superior Court, before Lathrop, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, which, so far as material to the points decided, is as follows.
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Contract for medical and surgical attendance in performing two operations upon the defendant’s wife. Trial in the Superior Court, before Lathrop, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, which, so far as material to the points decided, is as follows. The defendant set up in defence that the operations were not performed nor his wife treated with proper care and skill, and also that the nurses at the hospital where the operations were performed were negligent and careless in their treatment of the defendant’s wife. The plaintiff testified that the defendant’s wife eame to him for medical…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The only exceptions taken in this case relate to the admission of evidence. One of the issues was, whether the plaintiff was responsible for the negligence of nurses in the hospital where the defendant’s wife was attended after the surgical operations were performed upon her. As bearing on this question, it was competent to show that the plaintiff was not the proprietor or manager of the hospital, and that it was in charge of the Sisterhood of St. Margaret. The testimony of Dr. Davenport and of Sister Gertrude was rightly admitted for this purpose.
It was immaterial that the defendant’s wife…
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