Pilgrim v. Landham

Mrs. Sarah Pilgrim brought this suit in Fulton County, for damages for malpractice of medicine, against Dr. J. W. Landham, a resident of Fulton County, and Dr. R. E. Hamilton, a resident of Douglas County. The case was nonsuited as to Land-ham; and thereafter was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction as to the defendant Hamilton. To these rulings the plaintiff excepted.

The plaintiff testified that after her family physician, Dr. Hamilton, had examined her at Douglasville, Georgia, and diagnosed her case as a tumor and not pregnancy, although she told him she thought it was the latter, he brought…