Kroll v. Vanden Berg

Plaintiff brought this suit to recover damages suffered by reason of claimed malpractice by defendant. Prom a verdict directed for defendant by the court, under the statute of limitations, plaintiff appeals. The malpractice alleged was the leaving of a part of a broken surgical needle in the abdominal cavity of plaintiff during and following an operation of supracervical hysterectomy.

Plaintiff, a single woman aged 44, brought suit on December 6, 1951, against defendant, a practising physician and surgeon of Grand Rapids. In 1933, plaintiff had had a tumor removed from the wall of the uterus…