Johnson v. Vaughn

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment from a directed verdict for the defendant, Dr. Darrel L. Vaughn, in an action for negligence and malpractice, charged to have been the proximate cause of the death of Celie Johnson. The plaintiff claims three categories of negligence on the part of the defendant, namely, improper treatment, abandonment of the patient at a crucial time and unreasonably delaying consent for another physician to attend him. Our question is whether the evidence introduced by the plaintiff was insufficient as a matter of law to submit the case to the jury.

Celie…