Seewald v. Gentry

— This cause is for damages for alleged malpractice by defendant, who is a physician and surgeon. A trial to a jury resulted in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $1500 and defendant appealed.

Plaintiff alleged that on April 16, 1922, he employed defendant to set and treat his right leg, the bone of which had been broken between the knee and thigh; that defendant tightly bandaged plaintiff’s foot and ankle and placed a shoe thereon, and that said shoe was connected by cords to a heavy weight and so arranged that the weight suspended from the foot- and ankle and caused the shoe…