Nelson v. Ziegler

On or about the 25th day of December, 1923, the plaintiff, then about seven years of age, injured his right hip by jumping from a straw stack. A day or two thereafter he experienced serious pain in his knee. Dr. Ziegler was called. He diagnosed the trouble as inflammatory rheumatism, and continued to treat him for that disease until about the 29th day of March. During all of that time the pain experienced by the boy was in the knee. The medical testimony shows that this fact should have warned the doctor that the trouble was not inflammatory rheumatism, as a characteristic symptom of…