Gray v. . Little
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Orvu. AotioN for damages at the hands of the defendant, a practicing physician, for occasioning, as alleged,the death of bis patient, Katie Gray, intestate of plaintiff, by mal-prac-tiee and cruel treatment, tried before Robinson, J., at February Term, 1900, of Altsxastdjer Superior Court. The plaintiff, husband of the deceased, had employed the defendant, Dr. Little, to attend his wife in her confinement.
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Orvu. AotioN for damages at the hands of the defendant, a practicing physician, for occasioning, as alleged,the death of bis patient, Katie Gray, intestate of plaintiff, by mal-prac-tiee and cruel treatment, tried before Robinson, J., at February Term, 1900, of Altsxastdjer Superior Court. The plaintiff, husband of the deceased, had employed the defendant, Dr. Little, to attend his wife in her confinement. The first issue related to the employment, and was by consent answered, “Yes.” The second issue: Was the death of plaintiff’s intestate caused by defendant’s carelessness, and inhuman and…
1Opinion of the CourtFaircloth, C. J.
The defendant is a practicing physician and surgeon, and was called to attend the plaintiff’s wife in her child-bed sickness. The evidence is not in the record in this Oonrt, and there is no exception to anything at the trial, except that part of the charge copied below.
The allegation is that the defendant, by his careless, negligent and unskillful conduct, caused great pain and injury to the plaintiff’s intestate (wife), and that by inhuman and cruel treatment by the defendant, the child’s death resulted after delivery, and the death of the wife was hastened and accelerated. The answer…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Benton v. North Carolina RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1898
- Lewis v. City of RaleighSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1877
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- Meekins v. Railway Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
- Gray v. Little.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1900
- Rushing v. Seaboard Air Line Railway Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1908