Seattle-First National Bank v. Rankin

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict against the defendants, Dr. Francis W. Rankin and his wife, in a malpractice case.

Dr. Rankin (referred to as the sole defendant) is a licensed physician in Seattle and does a general practice including obstetrics. Mrs. Dorothy Irene Baird, in June of 1951, employed the defendant to attend her during her pregnancy and ultimate delivery of her child, Dorothy Earlene. In March, 1952, the defendant performed a Caesarean section whereby the child was born with a form of cerebral palsy, technically known as athetoid quadriplegia. The…