Staley v. Jameson

The appellant sued the appellees, and in his complaint alleged that they were partners, engaged in the practice of physic and surgery, in the city of Indianapolis; that he employed them to set and heal his arm, which was broken, and “ for that purpose they undertook as surgeons, .for the sum of one hundred dollars paid them by the plaintiff, to attend and care for him; that they so negligently and "unskilfully conducted themselves in setting and attempting to heal and cure said arm as to impair and destroy the efficiency of and render the same almost worthless to plaintiff;” that by reason of…