Swanson v. Hood
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for What-com county, Brawley, J., entered May 81, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for malpractice.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, C. J.
Action for damages claimed as resulting from alleged malpractice and negligence of a physician in setting a broken arm. The evidence is so voluminous, comprising some 1,200 pages of typewritten matter, as to make it impracticable to discuss it in detail. We can do no more than present the bare outline necessary to an understanding of the general nature of the case.
On April 23, 1913, plaintiff, a merchant of Ferndale, Washington, broke both bones of his right forearm while *508cranking an aútomobile; the radius was fractured transversely at a point about three inches, and the ulna obliquely at a…
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