Spears Purifoy v. McKinnon

This suit was brought by appellee against appellants, practicing physicians, in -the circuit court of Union County, to recover damages in the sum of $10,000 for alleged malpractice in the performance of an operation on her on March 5, 1921. The gist of the complaint is that, after the operation they performed upon her for ectopic pregnancy, at "Warren-Brown Hospital in El Dorado, they left a sponge or gauze in her abdominal cavity, which dropped into the.cul-de-sac, a pouch at the bottom .of the abdomen lying above the uterus and in front of the colon, where the gauze began to rot the tissue…