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Deposition in Sanford v Preble
STATE F MAINE.
HANCOCK SS.
On the 26th, day of November A. D. 1898 personally appeared the
within named Chas. M. Sawyer, at the office of GOO. R. Fuller South
West Harbor, in Tremont, in said county and having been first sworn ac
cording to law by me, then gave the foregoing deposition which was
written by me. The adverse party was notified by me to attend and did
not attend.
said deposition is to be used in an action between Samuel C. San-
ford plaintiff and Wm. P. Preble defendant to be heard and tried in the
Supreme Judicial Court at a term thereof next to be holden at Ellworth
in the County of Hancock on the 3rd, Tuesday of Jany. 1899 The de-
ponents residing in a town other than that in which the trial is to be
had is the cause of taking this deposition
Geo. R. Fuller,
Justice of the Peace
I Chas. M. Sawyer of Tremont, in the County of Hancock of lawful
age, on oath depose and testify, in answer to interrogatories propound-
ed by L. B. Deasy Atty. for plaintiff.
a. 1: State your name and residence and proffession?
Ans. Chas. M. Sawyer, South West Harbor, Doctor of Medicine.
Q. 2: When and where did you graduate in Medicine?
Ans. Jefferson Medical College Penn., in A. D. 1872.
Q. 3: How long have you been engaged in the practice of medicine and
where?
four
Ans. Since '72 part of the time in Massachusetts and the last years
at South West Harbor.
Q. 4: During the last four years have you been called upon to treat
Wm. P. Preble of Cranberry Island and his wife?
Ans. Yes sir I have.
Q. 5: How many professional visits have you made to treat Wm. P.
Preble and when and for what illness?
Ans. It is a pretty hard question I have been called to treat Mr.
Preble 15 or 20 times.
Q. 6: How many times have you been called to treat Wm. P. Preble's
wife?
Ans. I do not know as I can tell Mr. Sanford always paid me I should
say forty or fifty times.
Q. 6: Over what period of times have these visits extended?
Ans. From Mar. 1894 down to the time of her death.
0. 7: Have you any record showing the number of visits and if not why?
Ans. No sir I have no record, as Mr. Samuel Sanford with the exception
of one visit always paid me, before the visit was ended.
Q. 8: For what ailments, have you treated Wm. P. Preble himself,
And. A variety, the first time for some slight attack of indigestion,
and the next time he suffered from the effects of the sun; almost
amounting to a sunstroke, and then later since his wife's death I have
called several times and he came very near having pneumonia.
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Deposition in Sanford v Preble
Deposition: Sanford vs Preble, of Dr. Chas. M. Sawyer, taken 26 Nov 1898. Transcribed.