Silver v. Parr

This was a suit by appellant, Silver, against appellee, Parr, as defendant in a complaint of three paragraphs. The object of the suit was to recover damages which plaintiff claimed he had sustained by reason of the careless and negligent treatment he had received from defendant, who had undertaken, as a practising surgeon, to set the broken bones of plaintiff’s leg, and to attend to and cure and heal the same for a fee and reward, etc.

Defendant answered by a general denial of plaintiff’s complaint. The issues joined were tried by a jury, and a verdict was returned for the defendant, and, over…