Chubb v. Holmes

The assignment of error pertaining to the denial of the defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict, and two of those relating to the charge to the jury concern the effect of the lack of expert evidence supporting the allegations of the defendant’s failure to exercise the required professional skill and care, with reference to post-operative treatment following the extraction of the plaintiff’s tooth. While the plaintiff produced a physician and surgeon who testified as to the matter of infection of the tongue from an infected tooth, both the finding and the printed testimony disclose that no…