Brown v. Shortlidge

PARKER, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal by defendant, a physician and surgeon, from a judgment entered against him in an action for damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff as a result of carelessness and negligence of the defendant in and about the performance of a minor surgical operation. • Plaintiff at the time of the operation was a child ■of the age of six years. Defendant, as a surgeon, had advised the necessity of the removal of the child’s tonsils and adenoids, and pursuant to that advice the child was taken to a hospital' for the operation. There is evidence that at the…