Weekly journal-miner., 1918-06-19
VERDE HOSPITAL DOCTORS SUED
 FOR DAMAGES
JEROME MAN DEMANDS THE SUM OF 5000, AL LEGIN G MALPRACTICE BECAUSE OF DEATH OF HIS WIFE LAST MAY.
(From Saturdays Daily)

NIIOu Odluludl . Odlly
 Drs. L. P. Kaull and Arthur C.
 Carlson, head physicians in the United Verde Copper Co. hospital in Jerome, and the United Verde Copper Com pary, were yesterday made the de- fendants in damage suit for S25,O 900 filed in the Yavapai Superior court by Edward M. Mears, Jerome man, who accuses the physicians of having been guilty of malpractice in con nection with the treatment which the plaintiffs late wife received at the company's hospital last May.
 According to the complaint which was filed in the clerks office, Mrs. Laura Mears, wife of the plaintiff, was taken i'll on May 14th, and sent to the hospital as a pay patient The physicians are said to have informed the woman and her husband that the patient was suffering from the effects of a tumor, and that its immediate removal was necessary if her life was to be saved At that time, Mrs. Mears was in a delicate condition of health, expecting the arrival of a child within short period The operation was performed on May 18th, at which time, the complaint says, it was found that the patient had no tumor On the day follow ing the operation Mrs. Mears and her unborn babe both passed away.
 The complaint charges that Drs. Raul and Carlson had been intoxi- cated on the night preceding the operation, and that they had spent the night in ''joy-riding," with the result that on the following morning at s o'clock, when the operation was performed, neither of them was in shape to properly take care of such a delicate bit of surgery. The plain tiff asks for $20,O00 exemplary dam ages and a further judgment in the sum of S5,000 for the hospital and bills which were incident to the operation and final illness of his wife. The plaintiff is represented by a Phoenix attorney.
 Serious Charges Against Husband
 Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. O'Neil yester- day filed suit asking the court for a decree divorcing her from Michael J. O'Neil, the plaintiff making ser ious charge against her husband. Ac- cording to the complaint, the couple was married at Phoenix in October, 1915, and about year or so later the husband gave up work and intimated that his wife should earn the living for the family. He suggested that she enter a house of prostitution, the says, and also made ar for her to entertain at least one of his gentlemen friends. The woman spurned these proposi- tions of her husband and quit him then and there She asks for the de- cree and also asks that the court compel the husband to pay something toward the support of their young child.
 Wants Damages for Injury
 The United Verde Extension Cop per Co. and the Potter Construction Co. were yesterday made the joint in a personal injury suit filed by E. Lightfoot, a man for merly in the employ of one of the defendant corporations. The com plaint asks for damages in the sum of 5000, alleging that the plaintiff was injured While at WOrk III tnc copper company's property. It is said that he was running a drill, and n some manner the machine became broken. Lightfoot and another em- Dloyee attempted to fix the drill and n doing so had to use an axe. Light loot was struck by the axe which was being wielded by his partner. md sustained severe injuries about he head, which, he says, necessi- ated a protracted lay-off with re- ,ultant loss of wages.
 | E. and H. L. Crutchheld yester- lay began suit against Stanley Day. > seeking to collect the sum of S2SS which they claim is due them as deferred payment on an auto which he defendant purchased from them evera1 months ago