Keating v. Perkins

The action is for breach of contract against the defendant, a surgeon dentist, upon allegations that the plaintiff had employed the defendant to extract four teeth, including one tooth with a gold inlay, and that the defendant had faffed to perform the contract in that the gold inlay became detached while the plaintiff was under anesthetic and, falling into the plaintiff’s throat, had become lodged within her body. The plaintiff demands damages resulting from the defendant’s failure to perform the contract, including the cost of medicines, medical attention and loss of earnings.

At the trial…