Trindle v. Wheeler

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment entered on a directed verdict for the defendant, a physician, in an action to recover damages for alleged negligence in the treatment of an ankle injury.

The plaintiff had been employed for over thirty-five years as a teacher in the schools at Indianapolis, Indiana. While spending her vacation with her sister in Riverside, California, she sprained and resprained her ankle. Some twenty years previously the same ankle had been broken and the X-ray revealed signs of enlargement and traumatic arthritis. When she sustained the recent sprains she…