Podvin v. Eickhorst

This appeal is from judgments of no cause of action entered on jury verdicts in 4 consolidated cases against 7 doctors in which plaintiff sought damages for injuries he claimed resulted from their medical malpractice. In 1 of the cases, the trial judge instructed the jury to return a verdict in favor of defendant Van Harn.

Plaintiff had been injured in an automobile accident and hospitalized in a Lapeer hospital. His physicians in Lapeer, after determining by X ray that plaintiff’s spine was dislocated, transferred him to St. Joseph Hospital in Flint where there was available suitable…