Hackworth v. Hart

EDWARD P. HILL, Judge.

The appeal is from a judgment entered pursuant to a directed verdict for the ap-pellees on the trial of appellants’ action for damages based upon an allegation that a vasectomy operation performed by appel- lee Dr. Ernest Hart on the appellant Harvey Hackworth was unsuccessful. The appellants relied both upon a contract and negligence.

The judgment does not state the grounds upon which the trial court directed the verdict for the appellees, but in the appellants’ brief it is said that the trial court based its decision upon the failure of the appellants to prove…