Legal Opinion

Mucci v. Houghton

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided January 17, 1894PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal from Cornell Bluffs Superior Court. — Hon. J. E. F. McGtEE, Judge. The plaintiff is a gardener by occupation. The defendant is a physician and surgeon. On the eleventh day of June, 1890, .the plaintiff sustained a fracture of his left arm between the wrist and elbow. Both of the bones of the arm were broken. He employed the defendant to reduce the fracture and treat the injury.

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Appeal from Cornell Bluffs Superior Court. — Hon. J. E. F. McGtEE, Judge. The plaintiff is a gardener by occupation. The defendant is a physician and surgeon. On the eleventh day of June, 1890, .the plaintiff sustained a fracture of his left arm between the wrist and elbow. Both of the bones of the arm were broken. He employed the defendant to reduce the fracture and treat the injury. The defendant at first bound up the arm in splints, and afterwards incased it in a plaster cast. After giving attention to the injury until the seventh day of August of the same year by examining the condition…

1Opinion of the CourtRothbock, J.

i. evidence: tfon“liTorS' prejudice. There are a large number of errors assigned upon rulings upon the admission and exclusion of evidence offered by the respective parties. We will proceed to consider such ox the questions raised as, upon a careful examination of the record, we think require special mention.

The plaintiff, in the course of his examination as a witness, was asked the. following question: “Now, I want to ask you if you fully complied with all the instructions of defendant in reference to this arm, and your treatment and care of it while he was treating you1?” This question was…

2Cited by11 opinions

  1. Nash v. . RoysterSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1925
  2. Jenkins v. Charleston General Hospital & Training SchoolWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1922
  3. McGulpin v. BessmerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1950
  4. Bolles v. KintonSupreme Court of Colorado · 1928
  5. Crouch v. National Livestock Remedy Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1928

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