Sasser v. Connery

The plaintiff's appeal presents one question: Whether the trial court, in a medical malpractice case, erroneously instructed the jury that "where the proper course [of treatment] is subject to reasonable doubt, a physician is not liable for an error in judgment, an honest mistake." The defendant's cross-appeal presents the issue of whether he was entitled to a directed verdict because the plaintiff failed to present any expert medical testimony that the defendant's alleged negligence proximately caused the death of Ollie Powers Sasser. Because we find that the plaintiff did not present any…