Posnien v. Rogers

TUCKETT, Justice:

The plaintiff commenced these proceedings in the District Court of Weber County, seeking to recover damages for the defendant’s negligence in the diagnosis and the treatment of plaintiff’s brood mare, which resulted in the mare’s infertility. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case the trial court directed a verdict of “no cause of action” in favor of the defendants. Plaintiff is here seeking a reversal.

The plaintiff is the owner of a registered quarter horse which was used as a brood mare. On May 27, 1972, while the plaintiff was out of town, the mare gave birth to a colt.…