Wisher v. Higgs

DISTRICT JUDGE HARKIN

sitting for JUSTICE TRIEWEILER delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The plaintiff, Patricia Wisher, appeals from a jury verdict rendered in a medical malpractice action tried in the Eleventh Judicial District Court, Flathead County. The defendant, Dr. Wilson Higgs, stipulated prior to trial that the preponderance of medical testimony established that Ms. Wisher incurred an injury during a surgery that he performed on November 14, 1979. Specifically, Ms. Wisher sustained a dehiscence, or hole, in her left inner ear following a left facial nerve decompression procedure. Dr.…