Hess v. Millsap

BLAIR, Justice.

Noah Millsap, next friend of his minor daughter, appellee Lela Viola Millsap, sued appellant, D. L. Hess, a practicing physician, for damages occasioned by his negligent operation of an X-ray machine, and careless X-ray treatment administered to appellee’s head while treating her for favus, causing an X-ray burn, which resulted in permanent baldness of most of her head. Appellant’s defense was that he did not burn appellee, but that the disease itself caused her baldness. The jury found that appellant negligently burned appellee’s head with the X-ray treatments, causing her…