Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-11

came to take on the splint, that being on
June %. Plaintiff testified that he had
asked DR.. Odiorne about taking or the
splint and that the doctor had replied
that if it was going to knit at all It was
knit then. On July 5 the defendant had
advised him to go to the hospital and
had not attended him after that.
The plaintiff then showed his leg to the
jury and he showed sores about the leg.
One of these sores he claimed was made
when tape was wound around. He testi-
fed that before the leg was broken over
DR.. Odiorne had left morphine tablets for
the plaintiff to take to relieve the pain.
And the defendant had admitted he was
responsible for the leg.
Upon cross-examination by Attorney
Littlefield the plaintiff stated that the
doctor had not told him if he didn't obey
orders he (the defendant) would not be
responsible. Many times the doctor had
measured the leg to make comparisons.
Dr. Odiorne told him he had better 60 to
the hospital Witness thought 1t was
strange that the doctor did not come
again after July 5, but he had not tele-
phoned for the doctor to come. DR.. obi
orne always came promtly when called
except on one occasion, when he had
said he had a confinement case he
couldn't leave. The plaintiff had tried to
move the leg with the weights on it but
he could move it only little. DR.. Odi-
orne had offered to get him a free bed
at the hospital.
Mrs. Merrill
Mrs. Merrill wife of the plaintiff. tes-
Iof&
with splints on his leg and pulley ar
rangement also attached to the leg. There
were also bandages on the leg. She first
saw DR.. Odiorne there on Friday but the
doctor did nothing until his next visit on
Sunday. The octor put sandbags at the
leg on Sunday afternoon. The weights
slipped off one day and the doctor was
summoned. Witness stated that the scar
on the plaintiffs heel was caused by the
bandage~ cutting In and she testified that
the bandage had caused other scars. The
foot was raw and bleeding when the boot
was put on and the witness had called
Dr. Odiornes attention to 1t. The doctor
then took off the boot. The nurse did not
come because DR.. Odiorne had said there
was no need of q nurse. Witness said
she had seen DR.. Simmons turning Dr.
Merrills leg when the leg was broken
over again. A wire splint was then put
on and DR.. Odiorne said the splint must
remain on eight weeks. The splint was
taken off by the doctor in six weeks and
three days. The leg was badly swollen
but the swelling later went down. Dr.
Odiorne had said on July that the re-
suit had been bad and he had advised
the plaintiff to go to a hospital. The
doctor did not come again to the house
On one occasion when Mr.. Merrill was
suffering great pain witness had lifted the
weights from the extension ropes.
Witness upon s-examination restf-
fed that she had received instructions TO
keep the weights on the leg but she did
not remember whether or not d. Odiorne
! had complained about her raising the
weights The doctor had found 1t neces-
sary at times to pull the leg down, but
the witness couldn't say how many times
Witness could not say how high on her
husbands leg the plaster paris boot had
extended. When the bandage was taken
off she first knew of a sore on her hus-
bands heel.
At the conclusion Ut her testimony court
was adjourned until this morning.