Bradshaw v. Wilson

This appeal on questions of law brings to this court for review a judgment for the defendant entered on a verdict returned on the direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence. The action is one for damages alleged to have resulted to plaintiff from the malpractice of the defendant, a specialist in orthopedic surgery.

On June 19, 1946, plaintiff sustained a spiral com-minuted fracture of the humerus of her right arm just above the elbow. The next day she employed defendant to “reduce the fracture and to attend her during her convalescence.”

The specifications of negligence on…