Newport v. Hyde

This is a dental malpractice suit, from the Circuit Court of Jackson County, brought by Mrs. Wilma Newport against Dr. A. Lowell Hyde. The jury returned a verdict for defendant, but, because of material errors in an instruction, we reverse the judgment of the trial court based on that verdict.

Dr. Hyde, a registered dentist, had been treating Mrs. Newport’s teeth at regular intervals for several weeks and had made an upper plate for her. On March 6, 1959, she went to him to make a final impression for a lower partial plate on the left gums. Dr. Hyde used an impression substance which he heated…