Legal Opinion
Gunning v. Cooley
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 12, 1930No. 31PublishedCited by 663 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butler
Respondent brought this action in the supreme court of the District of Columbia to recover damages from peti tioner, a practicing physician, for injuries claimed to have been caused by his negligence while treating her. Her complaint is that he put into her ears some tissue-destroying liquid, which for brevity we shall refer to as acid, and thereby injured the drums and other parts of her ears. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff and the judgment thereon was affirmed in the Court of Appeals. 30 F. (2d) 467.
At the close of all the evidence defendant moved the court to direct the jury…
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