Piper v. Halford

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

The action is one for malpractice against a physician and surgeon. There was a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $2,000, but upon defendant’s motion for a new trial the plaintiff, pursuant to the court’s suggestion, entered a remittitur of $1,000, and a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for this latter sum was duly entered. From this judgment defendant prosecutes this appeal.

The principal question urged, both in oral argument and in brief, relates to the refusal of the trial court to give for the defendant' the affirmative charge as duly requested. Much could be…