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that part of it was still broken and showed through the flesh,
she went back to town and hired a lawyer to carry the matter
into court. Then she went about talking, urging people to give
money to carry through the case. .
They brought Flora into court. The doctor testified that
Flora's bones would not heal because she was undernourished.
The head of the hospital testified that they had sent Flora home
in that condition because the doctor had said she was as well
as she could be. In cross-examination both the doctor and the
hospital head said the insurance company would not pay them
until the patient was dismissed. In order to get their money
they had to dismiss Flora. The doctor said, "a doctor must
live" and the hospital superintendent told the court that hos–
pitals must collect on their patients, or they cannot take in any
more, because they would be obliged to close on account of
having no money.
The judge decided that the doctor and the hospital must
live so they were right in dismissing Flora. And it was not their
fault the girl was not well, since Flora's bones would not heal
because she was undernourished.
Flora was sent back to the two freight cars she and her
parents called home. She lay there on the bed. Mrs.
Mel
ver
had to take one of the younger children to the city when she
heard that relief was to be given out.
Mrs. Bradley refused to be satisfied with the verdict. She
persuaded some of the women who had fought against Elmer
Jackson and his crowd to help her raise money for a second
trial. She went to Mrs. Killian, the rich widow from the North,
but Mrs. Killian, since she had begun attending Mr. Peasner's
seances, was somewhat cool with Mrs. Bradley, and refused to
give anything.
It
is not necessary to go into the legal steps taken, but
Mrs. Bradley got another trial for Flora McIver, to force the
insurance company to pay for another stay in the hospital until
Flora could be made entirely well.
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