Barnes v. Mitchell

Defendant, a chiropractor, operates a clinic at Three Rivers, Michigan. Plaintiff started his suit claiming that both of his hands were severely burned as a result of an X-ray treatment he received at defendant’s clinic on October 6, 1948. This appeal is taken'from the court’s judgment for the defendant notwithstanding the jury’s verdict of $3,-500 for the plaintiff.

Plaintiff did ndt go to defendant for treatment of his hands but for a back ailment. Plaintiff testified that every winter he would get “weather cracks” in his hands because as a wood pattern worker he had to work with wood, resin…