Morris v. Hoffman

WHITE, Judge.

This appeal arises out of a medical malpractice action when one and one-half cc’s of procaine penicillin were injected into plaintiff’s left buttock by the defendant. A jury found for the plaintiff in the amount of $69,222.90, and the defendant appeals.

At the time of trial appellant was a seventy-nine year old physician involved in general practice in Covington, Kentucky. The appellee is a thirty-one year old female of slight build. During the month of February, 1972, she visited the appellant’s office on several occasions and received a total of seventeen injections of various…