Speed v. State

UHLENHOPP, Justice:

In this appeal in a medical malpractice case, the State of Iowa challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to generate fact questions on negligence and proximate cause and the propriety of expert testimony-

In the fall of 1970, plaintiff James R. Speed attended The University- of Iowa, where he was a member of the University’s varsity basketball squad. About November 1 of that year he developed an upper respiratory infection — a cold — which persisted through the month; the basketball trainers gave him cold tablets. On Thanksgiving Day, November 26, he had a toothache and a…