Schnetzky v. Zanto
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Green Lake county: Chester A. Fowler, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff sued in justice’s court for. his medical services rendered to defendant and his wife. Defendant counterclaimed for damages on account of plaintiff’s alleged negligence in treating defendant’s wife. On appeal to the circuit court the case was tried anew and the jury found for the defendant.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Green Lake county: Chester A. Fowler, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff sued in justice’s court for. his medical services rendered to defendant and his wife. Defendant counterclaimed for damages on account of plaintiff’s alleged negligence in treating defendant’s wife. On appeal to the circuit court the case was tried anew and the jury found for the defendant. On March 5, 1919', while attending defendant, plaintiff was employed to take care of defendant’s wife, who was delivered of a child on the same evening. For several days thereafter plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtEsci-iweiler, J.
Although Dr. Berwick testified directly that there was no pus in the discharge coming from Mrs. Zanto’s uterus some eleven days after the birth of the child and in which was found, as he claimed, an overlooked portion of the placenta, yet it is quite apparent from an inspection of the record that through a mistake which could easily arise in the trial of such a lawsuit the court and *164counsel on both sides seemed to have assumed that there was testimony which would warrant the including as an important feature of the hypothetical question asked of the medical witnesses the existence of pus in…
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