Greenwood v. King

Epperson, O.

In a trial to a jury the plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of Mary Maud Greenwood, deceased, recovered a verdict and judgment, from which the defendant appeals. In his petition plaintiff alleged that Ms decedent suffered death through the malpractice of the defendant, a physician and surgeon. At the beginning of the trial the defendant demurred to the petition ore tenus. His demurrer was overruled. It is contended that the petition is fatally defective because it does not allege that the deceased left surviving her any person who sustained a pecuniary loss on account of…