Skillings v. Allen
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in tbe district court for Crow Wing county to recover $1,000. Defendant’s demurrer to tbe complaint was overruled, McClenaban, J., and tbe questions presented by the demurrer certified as important and doubtful. From the order overruling the demurrer, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Lees, C.
This is an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint interposed on tbe ground that no cause of action was stated. The court certified that the question raised was important and doubtful.
In substance the complaint alleged that defendant was a practicing physician, employed by plaintiff and his wife to treat their minor daughter who was ill. The defendant knew that the disease from which the child was suffering was scarlet fever and that it was infectious. Plaintiff’s wife, acting in his and her own behalf, consulted defendant as to the nature of the disease and the…
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