Bonderson v. Hovde
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Actions in the district court for Sibley county, one to recover $10,000 for malpractice and the other to recover $445.95 for medical attendance, hospital fees and other expenses incidental to the treatment of plaintiff’s minor child. The answers alleged that the professional treatment was rendered with due skill and care. The cases were tried together before Tifft, J.,.and a jury which returned a verdict for $5,000 in the malpractice ease and for $400 in the other case.
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Actions in the district court for Sibley county, one to recover $10,000 for malpractice and the other to recover $445.95 for medical attendance, hospital fees and other expenses incidental to the treatment of plaintiff’s minor child. The answers alleged that the professional treatment was rendered with due skill and care. The cases were tried together before Tifft, J.,.and a jury which returned a verdict for $5,000 in the malpractice ease and for $400 in the other case. From an order denying their motion for a new trial, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
In September, 1919, plaintiff’s fourteen-year-old daughter, Hazel, fell from an apple tree and sustained a fracture of the left arm near the wrist. She was taken to defendants, who are physicians and surgeons, for treatment. They examined her, reduced the fracture and put the arm in splints. She went to them for treatment from time to time during a period of about three weeks, consulting mostly with defendant Hovde. Then it developed that there were sores under the bandages and that a septic condition had set in. There was dead tissue and part of the bone was dead. Hazel thereupon received…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Williams v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
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