Maddox v. Boswell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint, in Catoosa Superior Court. Tried before Judge Crook, at November Term, 1859. This was an action by Doctor George B. T. Maddox, against William M. Boswell, on an account for board and medical services, rendered by plaintiff for defendant.
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Complaint, in Catoosa Superior Court. Tried before Judge Crook, at November Term, 1859. This was an action by Doctor George B. T. Maddox, against William M. Boswell, on an account for board and medical services, rendered by plaintiff for defendant. The defendant pleaded the general issue, and that plaintiff was not a practicing physician, entitled, by law, to charge and recover for the services rendered, never having obtained a license to practice, as required by statute, in such case made and provided. At the conclusion of the testimony, plaintiff’s counsel requested the Court to charge the…
1Opinion of the Court
*39 By the Court.
Lyon, J.,
delivering the opinion.
The only question in this case is, whether the plaintiff, as an unlicensed practicing physician, has a right to sue for, and recover that part of the account declared on, which is made up of professional services rendered defendant, on proof of the same — he (the plaintiff) having been a px’acticing physician at the date of the Act of 1847, reviving the Act of 1825, to regulate the licensing physicians in this State?
This identical question was made and decided affirmatively by this Court in Newsom vs. Lindsey, adm’r, 21 Ga., 365.
We see nothing in…
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