Hubbard v. Calvin

Opinion

COLOGNE, J.

A jury returned a $77,000 verdict in favor óf plaintiff John L. Hubbard after trial of Hubbard’s complaint for damages for medical malpractice against defendant Travis H. Calvin, Jr., M.D. Calvin appeals the judgment entered on the verdict after the trial court denied his motions for mistrial and for new trial.

The action arose out of Calvin’s June 1972 decision to perform, and his technique in performing, a cerebral angiogram, also called an arteriogram, on Hubbard who had an electric shock in March and was experiencing vertigo. When Hubbard awoke from the general anesthetic…