Wallace v. Cox

This is a suit by Wallace, a practicing physician and surgeon, to recover for a surgical operation and attendance on Eva Cox, the seventeen year old daughter of defendant Cox.

Cox formerly lived in Chattanooga, but about three years before the occurrence here involved he had removed to the adjoining county of Bradley. Two of his daughters, Mary and Eva, decided to and did remain in Chattanooga to earn their own living. This they continued to do without aid from the father. The two girls were boarding at the T. W. C. A. building when the younger sister, Eva, became ill. Dr. Wal*71lace was called…