Klitch v. Betts

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Williams, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment recovered by Frank A. Klitch, an infant, by his next friend, against Edwin Betts, in the Essex Circuit Court, March 16th, 1915.

The plaintiff, ten years of age, was brought by his father to defendant’s dental office on January 20th, 1914, at eight p. m. to have a tooth extracted. A Dr. Snively was in the employ of defendant at the time as an assistant, and his office hours were from nine a. m. to six p. m. In the absence of defendant, Dr. Snively extracted a deciduous molar tooth from plaintiff’s lower left…