Howe

This is an action for damages growing out of an alleged negligent chiropractic adjustment administered to Mary Frances Howe, wife of A. Z. Howe, by an employee of appellant. The case was tried before á jury, which returned a verdict in the sum of four thousand dollars for damages suffered by Mrs. Howe, and one thousand dollars damages suffered by her husband by reason of the loss of her services. An appeal was taken from the judgment which was entered upon the verdict.

It is alleged that appellant and his employees maintained offices in the city of Los Angeles for the treatment of patients and the cure of disease; that on or about October 6, 1927, respondents employed appellant to diagnose their ailments and to give them a course of treatments; that appellant undertook the treatment of Mary Frances Howe and that on October 18, 1927, one of the practitioners employed by respondent administered a treatment to her so carelessly, recklessly, negligently, unskilfully and without ordinary care, knowledge or skill, and with such force and violence treated and manipulated the body of Mrs. Howe that he broke one of the cartilages of one of her lower ribs.

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