Willard v. Norcross
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for malpractice. Plea, tbe general issue. Trial by jury at the April Term, 1911, Essex County, Hall, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. At the close of all the evidence the defendant moved for a directed verdict. Motion overruled, to which the defendant excepted. The plaintiff also brought her petition for a new trial to February Term, 1912, of the Supreme Court. The opinion states the case.
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Case for malpractice. Plea, tbe general issue. Trial by jury at the April Term, 1911, Essex County, Hall, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. At the close of all the evidence the defendant moved for a directed verdict. Motion overruled, to which the defendant excepted. The plaintiff also brought her petition for a new trial to February Term, 1912, of the Supreme Court. The opinion states the case. This case has been thrice before in Supreme Court, see 81 Vt. 293; 82 Vt. 285; and 83 Vt. 268.
1Opinion of the CourtRowell, C. J.
This is an action.for malpractice as a physician and surgeon. On December 29, 1902, the plaintiff, as she was leaving her place of employment in Island Pond in the town of Brighton, in Essex County, slipped and fell forward onto her outstretched hands and hurt her wrists. The defendant, *429living and practicing in Island Pond, being called to attend her, undertook the case and visited her three or four times before she. left Island Pond and went to Charleston, Yt. The testimony-on her part tended to show that on defendant’s first visit her wrists were swollen and painful; that he took hold of…
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