Case v. Vearrindy

This is a malpractice suit brought against a chiropractor. Plaintiff appeals from a directed verdict for defendant.

Testimony for plaintiff not objected to by defendant shows the following: Plaintiff’s decedent went to defendant for weekly treatments from 1947 until January, 1951. In July of 1950 she was observed by her sister to be using an ice pack on her breast and massaging it with salve. On January 8, 1951, she went to a doctor of medicine, who discovered cancer in her breast which, in his opinion, should have been noticeable to her for at least a year. . On January 13, 1951, she entered…