Daiker v. Martin

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment on a verdict directed for defendant-physician in a malpractice action for damages allegedly caused by placing and keeping plaintiff’s broken leg in a cast which was too tight, after defendant had done a closed reduction on fractured bones of the lower leg.

Friday evening, November 3, 1950, plaintiff, then age eighteen years, was injured in a high-school football game at Carroll, Iowa. His injury was a comminuted fracture of both bones of the left leg about nine inches above the ankle. It was a simple fracture, that is, one which did not break…