Ewing v. Goode

TAFT, Circuit Judge.

In this case the petition of Nellie Ewing, the plaintiff, alleges that she employed the defendant, Goode, a surgeon and oculist, to cure her of a certain malady of her eye, for a reward to be paid therefor; that defendant entered upon such employment, but did not use proper care and skill in the operating on the eye of plaintiff-, and did not bestow proper attention and treatment upon the eye after the operation, causing her to suffer great pain, and to lose the right eye entirely, and to impair the sight of her left eye. The answer of the defendant denies unskillfulness…