Evans v. Bannock County

This is an action by appellant for damages against respondent Bannock county and D. C. Ray and W. F. Howard, as physicians and surgeons. Bannock county was owner of and operating the Pocatello General Hospital and defendants Ray and Howard were practicing physicians and surgeons who performed a herniotomy on appellant at the hospital. Negligence was charged as the basis of the cause of action. The cause was tried before the court and jury, and after the close of plaintiff’s evidence, and on motion of defendants for a judgment of nonsuit, order was entered granting the nonsuit and entering…