Woodruff v. Gilliam

Kenna, Judge:

C. E. Woodruff, the plaintiff, was injured December 23, 1932, while walking along the Midland Trail on Coal Mountain in Putnam County. He was struck by an automobile being driven by Father Joseph A. Gilliam, and, with minor injuries, sustained a fractured skull and a severe injury to his brain. He was at once taken to St. Francis Hospital in Charleston by the defendant. The house surgeon of the St. Francis Hospital, Doctor Haley, promptly had Doctor A. A. Wilson, a specialist in the surgery of the brain and nervous system, called in and placed the patient in his charge. Dr.…