Grice v. Atkinson

Steele Hays, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the trial court in a dental malpractice action following a directed verdict for the defendant at the close of the plaintiffs’ case.

Cindy Grice and her husband sued Dr. Robbie R. Atkinson for failure to give Mrs. Grice the type of information customarily given to patients by other members of the dental profession in securing an adequate, informed consent to the performance of oral surgery. The trial judge granted the motion for a directed verdict on the premise the plaintiffs had failed to establish that the defendant did not…