Owen v. Watson

These cases were consolidated and heard together.

In the first case judgment was rendered in the circuit court in favor of Watson and against Jesse Owen for $150 for an appendicitis operation on Earl D. Owen, the fourteen and a half-year old son of Jesse Owen.

In the second case judgment was awarded the Hospital against Owen for $84.30 for services incident to said operation.

In the Court of Appeals the judgments were reversed and the suits dismissed.

On February 21, 1911, the mother of Earl obtained a divorce from his father on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. The custody of Earl was…