O'Donnell v. the Rhode Island Company

The defendant’-s exceptions are mostly trivial

and call for no other comment. Those which are seriously relied upon must be overruled for the following reasons:(1) Injury to the pelvic organs may well be included in the claim in the declaration of injury to the “ internal organs,” and specific notice that pelvic injury was claimed was given to the defendant’s surgeon and was immediately reported to its counsel, as the surgeon testified at the trial. It is plain that this claim was no surprise to the defendant, and the evidence was properly admitted.

The circumstances of the accident made it…