American Mutual Liability Insurance v. Braden

(After stating the foregoing facts.) While the testifying physicians recommended the operation tendered the injured employee as one calculated to reduce the injury, and that it be performed, it nevertheless appears from the evidence, without dispute, that the operation involved a reopening of the injured employee’s leg and a rebreaking or a readjustment of the bones, and was an operation accompanied with danger to life, and, it is infer-able, must necessarily be accompanied with extraordinary pain and suffering; that it is a very delicate operation and should be performed only by a very…