de Long v. Delaney

• Decision Date: 18 May 1903
• Parties: DE LONG v. DELANEY.
• Court: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

55 A. 965
206 Pa. 226

DE LONG
v.
DELANEY.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 18, 1903.

Appeal from Court of Common Pleas, Lycoming County.

Action by Mary A. De Long against William E. Delaney. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.

Argued before MITCHELL, DEAN, FELL, BROWN, and POTTER, JJ.

W. M. Stephens, for appellant.

Seth T. McCormick, and Frank P. Cummings, for appellee.

PER CURIAM. Plaintiff's husband had his leg badly crushed in attempting to board a railroad train near Cammal station, and defendant, a physician, was called in on the emergency to treat him. Defendant rendered the first aids to the wounded man,

55 A. 966

washed and dressed the wound, bandaged the leg, and then relinquished the case to the family physician, who was expected, and arrived by the same train on which defendant left. The injured man remained under the care of the family physician for about two hours, and then was put on a train and taken to the hospital at Williamsport, where his leg was found to have bled profusely, and where he died a few hours later from loss' of blood. At the trial the plaintiff proved the foregoing facts; gave some evidence that a...