Peterson v. Hunt

This is a malpractice case. It was tried to a jury and resulted in a verdict for the defendant. Motion for new trial being overruled, judgment was entered dismissing the action, from which the plaintiffs appeal.

The appellants, G. E. Peterson and Ruth V. Peterson, are husband and wife, and reside in the city of Tacoma. The respondent is a physician and surgeon, practicing his profession in the same city. Sometime during the fall of 1934, Mrs. Peterson, believing that she might be pregnant, went to the respondent for an examination. She and her husband say that this was in September. The…