F. Kiech Mfg. Co. v. James
Decision Date | 28 April 1924 |
Docket Number | (No. 345.) |
Parties | F. KIECH MFG. CO. v. JAMES. |
Court | Arkansas Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Craighead County; W. W. Bandy, Judge.
Action by Lawrence James against the F. Kiech Manufacturing Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Affirmed.
Cooley & Adams, of Jonesboro, and Hughes & Hughes, of Memphis, Tenn., for appellant.
J. F. Johnston, of Lake City, and Gautney & Dudley, of Jonesboro, for appellee.
On March 1, 1922, appellee sustained an injury while working as an employee of the appellant company at its manufacturing plant in Lake City, Ark. On the same day he was taken to Jonesboro and placed in a hospital, and remained there under the care of Dr. H. H. McAdams until May 7th following, when he was discharged from the hospital by Dr. McAdams.
On May 9, 1922, a settlement was effected between appellant and appellee, pursuant to which appellant paid appellee $1,050 and took the following release:
Thereafter, notwithstanding said release, appellee instituted this action to recover damages for his injury. Appellant interposed several defenses and, among others, the release; and at the trial appellee sought to avoid the effect of the release by showing that, on the day it was given, Dr. McAdams made to appellee certain statements relative to the nature, extent, and probable duration of his injuries, which he believed to be true, but which, as it is subsequently developed, were erroneous.
Dr. McAdams did not testify as a witness, but a statement of what his evidence would be, if present, was dictated into the record, which reads as follows:
After appellee was injured, Hysmith, the plant foreman, directed Dr. Roberts to attend the injured man, and Roberts rendered first aid, and carried appellee to the hospital at Jonesboro. Dr. Roberts testified that, at the suggestion of Hysmith, he called Drs. Stroud and McAdams, physicians and surgeons practicing their profession as partners at Jonesboro, to meet him at the hospital. That on the way he met C. M. Boydston, the manager of the company, or a Mr. Shauver, an officer of the company (he did not remember which one), who, on learning of the occurrence of the accident, told the witness to "take him on and do the best you can for him." Witness placed appellee in the hospital, and Drs. Stroud and McAdams assumed charge of the case, and witness advised Boydston the action he had taken.
Appellee testified that while he was in the hospital he was attended by Drs. Stroud and McAdams, principally the latter; that he did not know who engaged them, and that he was discharged from the hospital by Dr. McAdams on May 7th. These physicians continued to treat appellee after he was discharged from the hospital until the 1st of September following, during the first month of which time he came into Jonesboro to their office for treatment every day. These visits were reduced to two a week, and later to one a week, but as appellee did not get well, as had been anticipated, and continued to suffer, his arm was amputated, the operation being...
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