Thomas v. Ellis

The plaintiff had a verdict in an action against the defendant, a physician, for negligent treatment and care in an obstetrical case.. The defendant’s exceptions are to the admission of evidence and to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict.

1. We mention facts which the jury could have found and some of the evidence which, although disputed, they could have believed. The defendant was an obstetrician of wide experience, whom the plaintiff first consulted on August 29, 1946, when she was about four months pregnant with her first baby. It was agreed that he would give her prenatal care…