Bierstein v. Whitman

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Maxey,

On April 19, 1943, the plaintiff instituted an action in trespass in Cumberland County against the defendant, a dentist, alleging that he had been negligent in extracting a tooth from the right side of her lower jaw and that in doing so he fractured the lower jaw, and that he then negligently failed to diagnose and treat the injury which he had caused to the lower jaw. It was alleged that as a result of his failure to use professional skill in extracting the tooth and in rendering subsequent treatment the injured jaw became infected, and plaintiff endured…