Johnson v. Colp

Coring, Justice.

This is an action for damages alleged to have been sustained by an infant as the result of malpractice on the part of the defendant. Defendant’s motion for a directed verdict was denied, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for $465, and defendant appeals from the order denying his alternative motion for judgment or a new trial.

The essential facts are undisputed. The father, accompanied by his father-in-law, took plaintiff, his infant son, to the defendant, a physician and surgeon of some ten years’ experience, to be circumcised. The defendant, with his wife’s aid,…