Crump v. Piper

HENLEY, Presiding Judge.

This is an action against an orthopedic surgeon and a neurosurgeon for $250,000 damages for malpractice in the joint performance of surgery on plaintiff on February 7 and May 27, 1964. Verdict and judgment were for defendants. The court granted plaintiff a new trial on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence. Defendants appeal from that order. We affirm.

The acts of negligence alleged in plaintiff’s petition are, in substance: (1) that on February 7, 1964, defendants performed an operation on his back, a laminectomy and a fusion of vertebrae;…