Vann v. Harden

Two actions at law by notice of motion were instituted in the trial court in November, 1945,—one in behalf of Arthur Gardner Harden, an infant seventeen years of age, suing by his father, Ernest R. Harden, Jr., as his next friend, and the other in behalf of the father, Ernest R. Harden, Jr.. In both, Dr. Foy Vann, an orthopedic surgeon was the defendant, and both actions were grounded upon the alleged negligence of Dr. Vann in the treatment of Arthur Gardner Harden. In the latter’s case the damages claimed were $25,000, and in the father’s case the damages claimed for deprivation of his son’s…