[Download] "Caylor v. Virden" by United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit. ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Caylor v. Virden
- Author : United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.
- Release Date : January 05, 1955
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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This was an action brought by appellant as plaintiff against the appellee to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been inflicted by appellee, a physican and surgeon, in connection with an X-ray treatment administered by or under the directions of appellee. We shall refer to the parties as plaintiff and defendant respectively. At all times pertinent to the issues here involved defendant was a duly licensed physician and surgeon engaged in the practice of his profession in Kansas City, Missouri, and specializing in the use of the X-ray known in the medical field as roentgenology and radiology. The plaintiff, a farmer residing in the vicinity of Osawatomie, Kansas, had prior to the time of his alleged injury been given other X-ray treatments by the defendant for skin cancer. On June 22, 1951, he again consulted defendant in his professional capacity because of an apparent skin infection and was again given X-ray treatment and it is for alleged injuries received by him as the result of his treatment by defendant on this occasion that the present action is predicated. It is alleged in plaintiffs complaint inter alia that: