Semerjian v. Stetson

This is an action for alleged negligence, originally brought against a physician and after his death defended by his administrator. The case is here on the plaintiff’s exception to the direction of a verdict for the defendant by a judge of the Superior Court, when the defendant rested at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence.

*512The doctor, on April 23, 1928, operated on the plaintiff and removed a hard growth, termed a chalazion, from the under side of the upper eyelid of the plaintiff’s right eye. Prior to that time six similar growths had been removed from the plaintiff’s eyelids by operations…