Berryhill v. Nichols

Griffith, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court..--Appellants are the next of kin of a decedent who was accidentally shot and who died eleven days thereafter. Appellee is the physician to whom the wounded person was immediately brought. The wound extended from the wrist to a point near the elbow, and it then appeared to the physician to be a mere surface wound without penetration, and was treated as such. The physician visited the patient daily, and four days after the wound the physician came to the conclusion that some trouble existed not theretofore discovered by him, and the patient was…