Hotelling v. Walther

This action was commenced on September 30, 1940, to recover damages resulting from the alleged malpractice of the defendant, a duly licensed and practicing dentist in the city of Portland. The defendant is charged with negligence in that he failed to exercise due care in the extraction of a lower wisdom tooth and in the subsequent treatment thereof. More precisely, it is averred that the defendant only partially extracted the tooth, leaving broken parts of the roots thereof in the tooth socket and that he failed to exercise due care and skill in diagnosing the cause of the trouble.

At the…