Gore v. Brockman
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Miller Circuit Court. — Eon. Wm. E. Martin, Judge. Physicians are not warrantors of cures nor liable for errors of judgment. VanHooser v. Berghoff, 99 Mo. App. 487; Logan v. Field, 75 Mo. App. 594; Burnham v. Jackson, 20 Colo. 532; Jones v. Angelí, 95 Ind; 376; Tefft y. Wilcox, 6 Kan. 33; Patten v. Wiggin, 51 Me. 594; Geteliel y. Hill, 21 Minn. 464; Martin y.
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Appeal from Miller Circuit Court. — Eon. Wm. E. Martin, Judge. Physicians are not warrantors of cures nor liable for errors of judgment. VanHooser v. Berghoff, 99 Mo. App. 487; Logan v. Field, 75 Mo. App. 594; Burnham v. Jackson, 20 Colo. 532; Jones v. Angelí, 95 Ind; 376; Tefft y. Wilcox, 6 Kan. 33; Patten v. Wiggin, 51 Me. 594; Geteliel y. Hill, 21 Minn. 464; Martin y. Courtney, 75 Minn. 255; O'Hara v. Wells, 14 Neb. 403; Graham v. Gauntier, 21 Texas 111; M'cCandless v. Mewha, 22 Pa. St'. 261; Pellcy v. Palmer, 109 Mich. 561; Duboise v. Decker, 130 N. Y. 325; Barker y. Lane, 23 B. I. 224;…
1Opinion of the CourtEllison, J.
— Defendant is a physician and plaintiff was his patient. She charged malpractice and recovered judgment in the trial court for thirty-five hundred dollars.
The petition alleges that plaintiff was suffering from some “malady” and that she engaged defendant to treat her. That defendant pronounced her trouble to be “the hardening of the right lobe of the liver and proposed to treat her by means of what is generally known as an X-ray machine.” That defendant “unskillfully, rashly, unprofessionally, negligently and ignorantly commenced treating her with the X-ray.” That in so doing the “right side…
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