This Chapter consists of a detailed account of the most infamous malpractice litigation in early California history. The perfidious David Wooster prevails upon the impressionable and venal cesarean patient (a Mrs. Hodges) to Cooper adversaries and supporters are artfully deployed by opposing teams of prominent attorneys.
Cooper is exonerated. The trial exposes the malice and hypocrisy of his professional enemies who, in their plot to destroy him, shamelessly victimized a credulous and avaricious patient.
Cooper never takes the stand. Wooster is unanimously charged by a Grand Jury of twenty-one citizens of San Francisco with the crime of perjury for his testimony in the malpractice trial.