Cochran v. Gritman
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe District Court of tbe Second Judicial District, for Latab County. Hon. Edgar C. Steele, Judge. Action for damages for alleged negligence in failing to remove a gauze sponge after an operation for appendicitis. Judgment for plaintiffs and defendant appeals.
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APPEAL from tbe District Court of tbe Second Judicial District, for Latab County. Hon. Edgar C. Steele, Judge. Action for damages for alleged negligence in failing to remove a gauze sponge after an operation for appendicitis. Judgment for plaintiffs and defendant appeals. Tbe proof of physical facts that tbe wound was septic and that a septic wound with a foreign substance could not and would not heal was conclusive. {Chybowski v. Bucyrus, 127 Wis. 332, 106 N. W. 833, 7 L. R. A., N. S., 357; Fleming v. Northern Tissue Paper Go., 135 Wis. 157, 114 N. W. 841, 15 L. R. A., N. S., 701, and many…
1Opinion of the CourtLee, J.
This was an action by W. J. Cochran and Mary M. Cochran, his wife, respondents, against appellant Charles *659W. Gritman, a physician and surgeon who owned and operated a hospital at Moscow, Idaho.
Among other things it is alleged in the complaint that on March 12, 1917, respondent Mary M. Cochran was ailing from an inflammation of the appendix, that she had previously suffered from such attacks over a period of several years prior thereto, and had been advised by other physicians that the appendix should be removed, and that she was also about two months advanced in pregnancy. At this time she…
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