Scott v. Superior Sunset Oil Co.

GRAY, C.

This is an action for services rendered as a physician and surgeon. The trial was had without a jury, and plaintiff had judgment for twelve hundred dollars. The defendant appeals from the judgment and from an order denying it a new trial.

The services for which compensation is sought consisted of several surgical operations and some sixty-one days’ attendance upon an employee of defendant named Cornell. It appears by the admissions in the pleadings-and from the evidence that Cornell was employed to go upon the oil-lands of defendant and hold possession thereof and protect the same…