Livengood v. Howard

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STOUDER

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal by Defendant, Henry Howard, from a verdict and judgment for $50,000 in favor of Plaintiff, Richard Livengood, entered by the Circuit Court of Peoria County in a medical malpractice action.

The plaintiff, 19 years old at the time the suit was filed, first became aware of an ailment in his left ear in January of 1968, when pain developed and there was a purulent discharge from that ear. At the time he was serving in the U.S. Navy and while on leave in March, 1968, he consulted his family physician, Dr. Dan Bower,…