Sagmiller v. Carlsen

VOGEL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Morton County District Court, Sixth Judicial District, entered on March 8, 1973, which granted a motion for summary judgment pursuant to Rule 56, N.D.R.Civ.P., and dismissed a medical malpractice action because of plaintiff’s failure to show by affidavit or otherwise that she had expert medical testimony to establish the standard of medical care in the area and the failure of the defendant doctor to meet that standard, and that such failure was the proximate cause of her alleged injury.

Our statement of the facts is based upon the record…