Comstock v. Walsh

KENNEDY, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiffs are Dennis Comstock, non-custodial father of Jessie Comstock, and Jessie Comstock, represented by Dennis Com-stock as next friend. The exact age of the child is not shown in the record, but apparently she was something like three years old. The trial court dismissed plaintiffs’ petition against Children’s Mercy Hospital and Martha Walsh, M.D., which alleged that the defendants had been guilty of medical malpractice in the mistaken diagnosis of sexual abuse of plaintiff Jessie Com-stock, resulting in damage to the father and to the little girl herself. The…