Broadwater v. Arch

We are asked here to overturn a ruling of the Circuit Court for Garrett County (Hamill, J.) whereby summary judgment was granted in favor of appellee (defendant) on the action brought against him by appellant (plaintiff) for injury allegedly sustained due to dental malpractice.

Appellant filed his declaration on February 29, 1968, alleging that while he (appellant) was a patient in Memorial Hospital in Cumberland on April 20, 1967, appellee, a practicing dentist, removed “two teeth including the third right molar . . .; that during the course of the extraction of the teeth [appellee] fractured…