Supreme Court of Iowa September 22, 1908 (Reynolds v. McManus)

Ladd, C. J.—

l. Physicians: malpractice: evidence. The defendant a physician, attended the plaintiff in confinement November 27, 1904. She was then thirty-seven years of age, of delicate'physique, with undersized pelvis, and the child her first-born. In- . , , . struments were necessarily employed m effecting delivery, in the course of which the symphysis pubes *243were ruptured and separated.