Sutton v. Cook

This is a malpractice action in which plaintiff seeks to recover damages from defendant, a licensed chiropractor, for injuries alleged to have resulted from defendant’s negligence in diagnosing and treating a fractured vertebra. The jury returned a verdict for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.

Plaintiff consulted defendant at 9:00 a.m. on July 31,1964. Plaintiff complained of lower back pains, re lating that she had fallen on her hips and hack onto a cement floor at a Corvallis cannery at 2:00 a.m. of the same day. Defendant examined plaintiff, administering certain tests to ascertain the extent…