Kline v. Nicholson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Green District Court. — -Hon. P. M. Powers, Judge. ' Action to recover compensation for medical services rendered by plaintiff to defendant in tbe delivery of defendant’s wife during child labor and subsequent surgical treatment for resulting injuries. There was a counterclaim of damages for malpractice. The jury returned a verdict for defendant for $459, and from judgment on such verdict plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
The allegations in the counterclaim of negligence submitted to the jury were that plaintiff in effecting the delivery of defendant’s wife during child labor, negligently used defective instruments; that in the negligent and unskillful use of the instruments he lacerated and wounded defendant’s wife; that he afterwards treated such *712laceration in a negligent and unskillful manner; that in treating the wound he was so negligent and unskillful that he failed to properly dress the same; and that by such negligent and unskillful treatment the wound was prevented from healing.
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