Baulsir v. Sugar

This is an appeal from the action of the trial court in directing a verdict for the appellee at the conclusion of the appellants’ case in a suit where the appellants, husband and wife, sought to recover damages for alleged malpractice arising from an operation performed on the husband. The appellant, Robert L. Baulsir, a man in his early seventies, had been troubled by pains in his right leg and the treatment prescribed by his family physician had provided no satisfactory relief. At Mr. Baulsir’s request, his physician, Dr. Thomas Maloney, furnished him with the names of three orthopedic…