Marceau v. Ortego

TATE, Judge.

This is a suit by a physician to recover $864 for over a year of medical treatment afforded to the defendant Ortego for injuries received by the latter at work on April 8, 1958. Ortego impleaded his employer’s workmen’s compensation insurer as third-party defendant on the ground that this insurer was responsible for the cost of the treatment. After trial, judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff physician and against Ortego in the amount sought and in a like amount in favor of Ortego and against the third-party defendant, the insurer. Only the insurer has appealed.

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