Howatt v. Cartwright

This is an appeal from a verdict of the jury in an action against a physician and surgeon for malpractice. The respondent, a woman about thirty-six years of age, was thrown from a carriage in the mountains near Turn Turn on August 8, 1921, and received a fracture of the left femur, near the hip. A doctor was called and advised that she be taken to a hospital operated by the appellant. There she was placed in bed and later an X-ray was taken and the following day the fluoroscope was used and the limb placed in a Thomas splint. The appellant testified that his examination disclosed a comminuted…