Coleman v. Wilson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

This is an action under the Death act brought by the administratrix of Clarence E. Coleman, deceased. The defendant is a physician who made a specialty of diseases of the eye, nose, ear and throat, and who was consulted by the deceased concerning an obstruction in his left nostril, to remedy which an operation was performed by the defendant on September 15th, 1910. '

This operation consisted in the separation' of the turbinated bone from the septum or central partition of the nose to which it had become adherent, and the removal of portions…