Styles v. Tyler
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the value of professional services rendered by the plaintiff as a physician and surgeon; brought before a justice of the peace and thence by defendant’s appeal to the Court of Common Pleas for Hartford County, where the case was tried to the court, Calhoun, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court as to questions of law, and also upon the ground that the…
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Action to recover the value of professional services rendered by the plaintiff as a physician and surgeon; brought before a justice of the peace and thence by defendant’s appeal to the Court of Common Pleas for Hartford County, where the case was tried to the court, Calhoun, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court as to questions of law, and also upon the ground that the conclusions of the trial court as to questions of fact were clearly against the weight of evidence. The “Reasons for Decision”…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
This is an action brought by a practicing physician and surgeon to recover of the defendant the price of professional services rendered. The defendant answers by a general denial, and also sets up special defenses, of which only one affects the questions before us, and that one alleges that the plaintiff was a practicing physician and surgeon, and as such undertook to reduce a fracture of the thigh bone of the defendant’s infant child, and performed the operation negligently and without reasonable skill; and that by reason of the plaintiff’s negligence and lack of reasonable skill his…
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