Note 142 — OF ACTIONS AGAINST MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.

This case is recent, but we believe not reported. The plaintiff was a respectable artisan, and had been employed as engineer and brass-founder in a large manufactory in the city, and by his industry was enabled to earn about four guineas per week; the plaintiff’s right arm was dislocated by a fall from a gig. Mr. Pettigrew, the defendant, was sent for, but being unable to attend from illness, his assistant undertook the case, but conducted it so unskilfully, that the plaintiff lost the use of his arm—Damages £800.