Covington v. James

Tbe court below allowed defendant’s motion to nonsuit upon tbe theory tbat in tbe absence of expert testimony tbe evidence, serious as it is, is not sufficient to go to tbe jury on tbe issue of defendant’s failure to exercise due skill and care in bis treatment of plaintiff.

We are urged to adopt tbe view tbat recovery cannot be bad in any suit against a physician or surgeon for malpractice in tbe absence of expert medical testimony, except where tbe facts give rise to tbe application of tbe doctrine res ipsa loquitur. Pendergraft v. Royster, 203 N. C., 384; Ferguson v. Glenn, 201 N. C., 128;…