Grubb v. Groover

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from a judgment for the defendant in the Supreme Court of the District upon a directed verdict at the close of plaintiff’s case in an action for malpractice.

Plaintiff testified in substance as follows: On April 19, 19291, owing to an illness, supposed to be grippe, but subsequently diagnosed as “unresolved influenza pneumonia,” she went to Garfield Hospital, and on that day received X-ray treatment by defendants, through their agent, a Dr. Coe. During the treatment Dr. Coe came to her side and inquired how she was getting along. That “the treatment on this…