Torrance v. Wells

Plaintiff, a boy nine years of age, on July 9, 1926, suffered a compound fracture at the wrist of the right hand, the bone protruding and exposed, coming in contact with the earth as he fell from a tree. 1-Ie was carried at once to a hospital in Birmingham, and defendant, a physician and surgeon of that city of many years’ experience in the practice, was employed by the boy’s father to attend the case. That the boy’s right arm is permanently impaired in usefulness and permanently disfigured as a result of the accident is well established. He insists this unfortunate result was due to…