Stoskoff v. Wicklund

The plaintiff, George Stoskoff, was an old man seventy years of age. He had a corn on the little toe of his right foot, lie treated it himself for five or six weeks but it continued to get worse until it became so painful that finally on October 13th, 1919, he consulted the defendant, Carl A. Wicklund, a physician practising at Wild-rose, North Dakota. The defendant, after examining the plaintiff’s foot, told him that ho had a soft corn on the inside of his little toe; that the condition had become so bad that it would be necessary to remove the toe. To this the plaintiff objected and went…