Hubert R. Shaw v. William Beecher Scoville

LUMBARD, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal by plaintiff Hubert Shaw, a New York resident, from a judgment entered in the District Court of Connecticut on October 21, 1965, upon a jury verdict in a diversity malpractice and breach of contract action. Responding to special interrogatories, the jury found that the defendant, Dr. William B. Seoville, a Hartford neurosurgeon, was neither negligent in the performance of an exploratory operation on Mr. Shaw, nor in failing to advise Shaw that deafness might occur from that operation. The jury also found that there was no contract not to impair Shaw’s…