Mitchell v. Hindman

On the 16th day of December, 1889, the appellee, then twelve years of age, while attending school at Carbondale, fell, and received what is called a Colles fracture of the radius of the left forearm, about one and one-half inches above the wrist joint. The appellants, being in partnership in the practice of medicine and surgery at Carbondale, were employed to attend the patient. Drs. McAully and Lee reduced the fracture, put the arm in a Levis splint made of tin, of adult size, and bandaged the arm. After that time Dr. Lee did not treat the patient, he being called in, as understood, to…