Cardinale Ex Rel. Cardinale v. Kemp

WOODSON, J.-

The plaintiff brought this suit by his next friend, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, against the defendants for $30,000 damages for personal injuries caused by malpractice in performing an operation upon one of his eyes. A trial was had before the court and jury, and at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence the defendant offered a demurrer thereto, which the court gave, and thereupon the plaintiff took an involuntary nonsuit, with leave to move to set the same aside, which he accordingly did. In due course the same was presented, to the court and after due…