Nelson v. Dahl

Plaintiff appealed from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

The action for malpractice is against a duly licensed chiropractic doctor. Plaintiff’s intestate had a weak heart and a goiter. She suffered headaches and sought help therefor from defendant, who “analyzed” her spine and found “misalignments” of the vertebrae. He did not assume to treat her in the ordinary meaning of that term, but he undertook to adjust the spine by getting such vertebrae back into normal position so that abnormal pressure on the nerves would be removed with the idea that nature would take care of the rest. On…