Griffis v. Brown

The defendant (appellant here) conducts a dental establishment, in the city of Seattle, and on May 20, 1926, plaintiff called at defendant’s office for the purpose of receiving some needed dental attention. A dentist in the employ of defendant proceeded to extract plaintiff’s second right lower molar, using an hypodermic needle loaded with some appropriate drug to render the extraction as painless as possible. The extraction proved difficult, the tooth breaking, which necessitated the extraction of the roots separately. In October, 1925, plaintiff’s lower right first molar had been extracted,…