Warnock v. Kraft

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant predicated upon the granting of defendant’s motion for a nonsuit in an action to recover damages for malpractice.

So far as material the essential facts are:

June 22, 1936, plaintiff received personal injuries while riding on a drag attached to a tractor. He was unconscious for several days and among other injuries suffered a dislocation of one of his toes. Defendant, a physician and surgeon practicing in the city of Pasadena, who treated him, failed to have an X-ray taken of plaintiff’s foot, although plaintiff frequently complained of…