Lener v. Baron

In two consolidated actions, one being by a patient and her husband to recover damages for the malpractice of a surgeon, and the other being by the surgeon to recover the reasonable value of his services, the surgeon, Israel Jacobi Baron, as defendant in the first action and as the plaintiff in the second action, appeals from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered March 24, 1961 upon the decision and opinion of the court after a non jury trial, as awarded $5,000 plus interest and costs to the female plaintiff and $750 to the male plaintiff, and as dismissed the…