Wetzel v. Pius

SHIELDS, J., pro tem.

This is an action for damages against a physician and surgeon for malpractice in negligently setting the femur bone in plaintiff’s leg.

In his complaint plaintiff charges that on or about the seventeenth day of May, 1922, he broke this bone in his right leg, and, relying upon the skill of defendant, employed him to attend to the injury and to give him such care and treatment as was usual and necessary in such eases to effect a cure. Continuing, plaintiff charges that defendant so negligently and unskillfully conducted himself in attempting to set the leg that the ends of…