Dicenzo v. Berg

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

This is a suit for damages by a plaintiff contending that defendant surgeon performed an operation without his consent. The jury disagreed whereupon defendant moved for judgment pursuant to the Act of April 20, 1911, P. L. 70, 12 PS Sec. 684. The motion was refused and this appeal followed.

Plaintiff was employed in car construction by Pressed Steel Oar Company. While a car on which he was working was moving forward, his head came in contact with a projecting piece of scaffold in such way as to twist his spinal column in the region of the neck. The hospital record…