The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-17
Dispositions to Be Read in Doctor
Morrelrs Suit Against Patient
for $4,000.
TRIAL WILL BEGIN TO-DAY.
Period of Service Rendered to the
Patient Embraced Only One
Month and Eleven
Days.

Dispositions taken in New York were filed
yesterday In the suit of Doctor NJ. P Nor
rell against Doctor Joseph ]. Lawrence for
$4,000 for attending Doctor Lawrences son,
Frank. from June l TO July II last
The case will be heard in judge Ferriss's
division of the Circuit Court to-day.
The dispositions filed are those of Doctor
Lawrence. Doctor Waiter NJ. Fleming Of
New York. william j. English and W. w.
Conley.
Doctor Lawrence said he sent the tele-
gram which summoned Doctor Morrell from
St. Louis to attend his son in New York He
said his son had told him II he became
wolse to send for Doctor Morrell He said
all the other expenses of his sons illness
were paid by the Rio Chemical Company,
OF which his son was president AID were
charged to his account. His son, he said,
was ~ years old. and was worth 100000.
TRIP TO EUROPE WITH PATIENT.
Doctor Fleming was attending Frank
Lawrence before Doctor Morrell was sum-
moned. Doctor Morrell had previously been
Frank Lawrence's Physician and had made
a trip to Europe with him, 1t was stated.
Doctor Fleming said he was n physician
ana surgeon. He had practtced torty-two
years. the last thirty-eight In New York.
He was consulting physician and surgeon
of st. Elizabeth's Hospital. and for sew
erai years had been indirectly connected
with half dozen other hospitals In con-
sultation, and also with the Medico-Legal
Society. the Medical Society and Physi-
clans Aid and was examiner in insanity for
twenty-eight or thirty years in the Superior
Court.
He said he charged SO an hour when he
went out of the city. He said he made only
short trips for surgical operations or con-
sultation.
He said he received $500 or $500 for at
tending Frank Lawrence, and that he at
tended him four or five times longer than
Doctor L. Morrell
He said, however, that Frank Lawrence
and he were friends. and that he charged
only for his visits and nothing extra for
staying all night.
ASKED ADVICE ABOUT FEE.
He said Doctor Morrell asked him IL he
thought it would be exorbitant If he Nor
relD made his bill 5000 or 5000. He told
Doctor MorreIl he thought there would be
no demurrer to the bill.
He said Doctor Morrell spoke Of having
been in Europe with Frank Lawrence. Doc
tor Morrell said 1t was suggested when he
went away that something complimentary
would be done for him. but that he had not
discovered that Frank or the doctor had
remembered it,
Doctor Morrell was worried about sick
ness in his family. Doctor Fleming said
Doctor Morrell said there was not enough
money on earth to pay him for being away
from his wife. with little one suffering
from scarlet fever.
II that was a factor Doctor Fleming said
no compensation could be put upon his
Services.
Doctor Fleming said Doctor Morrell stat
ed that he doctor F'leming) was a good
deal more generous than he ought to be.
Doctor Fleming also said that Frank Law
renee had been given up before Doctor Nor
rell had been called.
consultation had been had. he said with
some of the best talent on the island, ard
Doctor Delaf1eld, who said the case was a
fatal one. refused to make suggestion.
Doctor Fleming declined to state what he
thought Doctor Morrelrs services were
worth. He did not like to Judge.
SOME PHYSICIANS ARE GREEDY.
Some of the doctors he saIi. think IL they
get there in time and save a patients life
they ought to have the earth.
He said he never saw a physician more
devoted than Doctor Morrell.
English is trained nurse. who waited
upon Frank Lawrence. He told of Doctor
Morrel's attendance upon the sick man,
and the care the latter received.
Conley transacted business for Frank
Lawrence. ard said he paid Doctor Nor
rell's hotel bills and other expenses Incl
dent to Lawrence's sickness and death. the
items being charged to Lawrences account
with the Rio Chemical Company. He said
he had been told that Frank Lawrence
willed his estate to his father.