Brashears v. Peak

The defendant herein is Dr. Rowland H. Peak, a practicing dentist in the City of Baton Rouge, who is being sued for damages for the alleged careless and negligent way in which he attended professionally one of his patients, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Brashears, wife of John P. Brashears, in removing a lower left bicuspid tooth from her jawbone. Mrs. Brashears' demand is for pain, suffering and discomfort, in the sum of $1,500, and for permanent impairment to her health and nerves, in the sum of $2,000. He husband joins her in the suit and makes demand for the sum of $89.75 for medical and hospital…