Chesley v. Durant

This is an action of tort for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence. It was undisputed that the plaintiff while at a hospital was operated upon by the defendant, a physician and surgeon, for appendicitis on July 29, 1916, and that on August 4, symptoms of sepsis having appeared, the defendant for the purpose of drainage inserted in the wound a piece of rubber tubing about two and one half inches long and one eighth of an inch in diameter. The defendant thereafter and until August 14 dressed the wound and inserted a new tube each day. But on August 15 he…