Whipple v. Grandchamp

The plaintiff’s amended declaration is in substance as follows: “. . . the defendant held himself out as competent to treat and cure her as a physician of the malady from which she was then suffering; that the defendant did undertake to treat and cure her said malady; and the plaintiff says that the defendant treated her in an unskillful, careless and negligent manner, whereby the plaintiff was seriously and permanently injured and was caused pain and suffering and anguish of body and mind, to the great damage of the plaintiff.” The answer is a general denial. The jury returned a verdict for…