The legal case that I will be covering is an older case named Cotnam v. Wisdom (1907). The case took place in 1907, and the situation at hand was that two physicians (F.L. Wisdom and another) had to perform emergency surgery on an individual (A.M. Harrison) who was in a critical state due to falling from a streetcar. The victim would end up staying in an unconscious state, and passed away. The administrator (T.T. Cotnam) of the deceased individual’s estate, and the physicians would get into a disagreement over payments. The physicians felt they had to be compensated for their services, whereas the administrator for the estate claimed that there was never a contract in the first place. In addition, they added that they never settled on a price.
