Moore v. Webb

CROSS, Judge.

In this malpractice suit plaintiff Lucille Moore asks damages from defendants G. Farrell Webb and Frank E. Klee, dentists in partnership, caused by their extraction of eight of her teeth without her consent while she was in a state of anaesthesia. The trial resulted in a jury verdict and judgment for $5,500 in favor of plaintiff. Defendants have appealed.

Defendants first contend that plaintiff failed to make a submissible case and that the trial court should have directed a defendants’ verdict. It is argued there is no evidence to show: (1) that plaintiff’s eight teeth were…