Barnhoff v. Aldridge

This is an action for damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff and to have resulted from a surgical operation performed upon plaintiff by defendant, a physician and surgeon.

The petition is in eight paragraphs and we set out briefly the substance of each paragraph, quoting the more pertinent parts, as follows:

1. That, the defendant is a practicing physician and surgeon residing in Jefferson City, Missouri.

2. That, in March, 1922, plaintiff became ill; suffered from pain in the right side of her abdomen; her family physician "diagnosed her ailment as gall-bladder…