Childers v. Frye

There are only two exceptions in the record. The first is to the ruling of the trial judge sustaining the motion for nonsuit, and the other is entirely formal. Therefore, the question of law to which all others are subsidiary is whether there was sufficient evidence to be submitted to the jury tending to establish the relationship of physician and patient between the deceased and the defendant. The duties which a physician owes to his patient have been established by several decisions, notably Long v. Austin, 153 N. C., 508; Mullinax v. Hord, 174 N. C., 607; Brewer v. Ring, 177 N. C., 476;…