Tetting v. Hotel Pfister, Inc.

The first contention of defendant is that the evidence does not sustain the findings of the jury that Charles E. Carlson, defendant’s masseur, was negligent in administering a massage to plaintiff, and that this negligence caused plaintiff’s injuries. This requires a review of the facts.

Plaintiff was forty-five years of age at the time of the alleged injury. In February, 1932, he went to the Turkish bath parlor maintained by defendant and Charles E. Carlson, one of the attendants, administered a Swedish massage. Plaintiff testified that the massage was given by striking his thigh with the…