Largent v. Acuff

WEBB, Judge.

The defendant’s first assignment of error is to the denial of his motion to dismiss the action. He argues that the only evidence as to the causation of the plaintiffs injury was the testimony of Dr. Curry and this was not sufficient to establish proximate cause. Dr. Curry testified that in examining the medical records as to the action Dr. Acuff took when he came to the hospital after Mr. Largent fell, he observed that Dr. Acuff in his notes “comments about that the neck was freely movable.” Dr. Curry testified:

“Well, here is a man who has paralyzed immediately on falling,…