Trimming v. Howard

LEE, C. J. —

Plaintiff and appellant, Albert Trimming, sought a judgment against defendant and respondent, W. F. Howard, a practicing physician and surgeon: he asked for general damages in the sum of $7,500 and special damages in the further sum of $2,565.50. He plead that respondent, having undertaken to treat him for spinal meningitis, attempted to inject into the patient’s spinal column by means of a hypodermic syringe needle a certain serum, but that in the operation he broke off a portion of said needle in appellant’s back, in the vicinity of the spinal column; that there after, for the…