Myers v. Holborn

*194The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, J.

This writ of error brings up for review a judgment of the Hudson Circuit Court, rendered in favor of Holborn, the plaintiff below, and against Myers, the defendant below. The principal facts which were proved at the trial of the cause, are as follows :

The defendant, a practicing physician of the city of Bayonne, promised the plaintiff, who resided in that city, to attend his wife professionally during her confinement. A short time before that event took place he left the city for a three days’ vacation, having first visited the wife of the…